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-Shamir's Secret Sharing implementation
+This library contains Java implementation of the [Shamir's Secret Sharing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing) algorithm.
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+You can use it to split arbitrary data into a number of shares.
+In order to join shares back into the secret data, certain, minimum number of shares must be present.
+The library contains utlity functions for serializing and de-serializing shares into binary messages, for compact and easy storing and sharing.