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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: how to secure your wallet from theft and loss
by
AaronM
on 09/06/2011, 23:15:49 UTC
Do you know why an integer implementation is insecure as stated on the Wikipedia page? I built a toy implementation in Mathematica but I can't see any way one could recover the constant term with fewer than k-1 points on the line.

I'm not sure, but I believe it has to do with the infinite extent of integers.  I'm guessing that if you did it only with integers modulo a large prime number, it would be more secure.  I encourage you to read up on it Smiley