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observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
3 is just a small number in this context, you can prevent a conspiracy (of 2), or have a redundancy (of 1), but not at the same time. They choose wrong… It’s always a risk when something hinges on a single human individual.
logi@piefed.world 1 hour ago
That's actually bit true. See the other comment about Shamir Secret Sharing. Very clever stuff where you can split a key in m parts and require n