Talk:Shamir Secret Snakeoil

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This article should be cleaned up to remove bias. I understand Greg Maxwell is well respected in terms of his cryptography knowledge, but its clear that this article is written in a way that includes many weasel words, including in the title itself. Shamir's secret sharing algorithm is, even by Greg Maxwell's own admission here, a perfectly valid and secure algorithm. The fact that many programmers have botched the implementation is not an indictment of the algorithm itself. This page should be upgraded to be a bit more professional and unbiased, noting the pitfalls as well as the downsides in comparison to multisig alternatives, but also being clear that it is a secure tool people can use as long as they find well vetted implementations (like anything in cryptography). Fresheneesz (talk) 00:20, 25 November 2019 (UTC)