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### needs:
Sometimes we find ourselves managing pieces of software/infrastructure/etc with all the passwords/knowledge and everything well encrypted,
the question I've asked myself is: what if for some reason we unwillingly disappear, what happens to all these data?
Maybe it's a shared service with others but on your machines, maybe it's your data that should be nice to make accessible to your significant other (but the other does not have a tech knowledge enough to be able to do it).
So I wanted something capable of encrypting a file/archive/furryporn/whatever in a way that it was encrypted for N persons but only a willi quorum of X persons was needed to decypher it.
I looked into "Shamir secret sharing" but I find that generating a new secret that should be distributed among the interested parties could be the key for failure.
### requirements:
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### customization:
see the example in _Examples/gpg-quorum_4of5.sh
if you want to increase the number of people needed to decrypt the file to 4 for example,
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