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Board Hardware wallets
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Re: Ledger Recovery - Send your (encrypted) recovery phrase to 3rd parties entities
by
o_e_l_e_o
on 17/05/2023, 08:30:52 UTC
⭐ Merited by Pmalek (2)
Can someone explain to me how the following is possible:
They've already said that this will use Shamir's Secret Sharing. (Let's not even get in to why SSS is a bad idea: https://blog.keys.casa/shamirs-secret-sharing-security-shortcomings/) In a 2-of-3 set up, if one share is lost you can recombine the other two shares to recreate the secret, and then from that secret generate three new shares

It's not clear whether that would require the user to set up everything again from scratch, or whether Ledger would just recreate your seed phrase and then generate three new shares automatically. I'm sure I don't need to point out the massive risk with the second option.