Securing Your Keys: Multi-Sig Vs Shamir Secret Sharing

Rohan Agarwal
Cypherock
Published in
Sep 25, 2019

Cryptocurrencies work on the basic cryptographic principle of public-key and private key pairs that enables people to accept and send transactions. Public-keys can be thought of like a username of the email-id, available for everyone to see and send cryptocurrency. Whereas, private-keys are known only by the user (kind of like a password) and help the user to authorize the transaction. But when it comes to recovery, unlike passwords, private keys cannot be regenerated to regain access to the funds/accounts.

The drawback of keeping any sensitive information like private keys securely is the data security problem:

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