User talk:Gburca

December 2017
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Shamir's Secret Sharing. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Alexf(talk) 21:14, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Justification
Of the external links, none are cross-platform and secure, and most are not compatible with each other (i.e. you can't create shares with one and reconstruct with another):


 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/secretsharp/ is a Windows-only C# application
 * http://www.christophedavid.org/w/c/w.php/Calculators/ShamirSecretSharing is a broken link
 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/secretsharejava/ is a Java command line application (unusable for non-technical people)
 * http://www.digital-scurf.org/software/libgfshare is another broken link
 * https://www.asecuritysite.com/Encryption/shamir is not secure (the password is decrypted on an un-trusted remote server and sent back to the user over the web - nonsensical from a cryptographic point of view)
 * https://github.com/Archistar/archistar-smc is a library (for software developers only)

The link I posted is to an application that is fully cross-platform (Windows, OSX, Linux, Android, iOS, etc...), secure (no server required, data not sent out over the network, all encryption/decryption is done in the user's browser), open-source, and compatible with the defacto `ssss` suite from Linux (addressing the concerns in the online community over incompatible implementations of SSSS). I believe it is a useful addition to the discussion on SSSS. Yes, I'm the author of it, but I hope Wikipedia's criteria is a little more open-minded than to exclude contributions simply because they were made by the author without considering the other merits. Additionally there's no mention of my name on the html page, so in that sense there's clearly no attempt at self-promotion.

I contend that the contribution is valuable to the general public, is more useful than many of the other external links as shown above, was made in good faith to improve the content of the page, and should be allowed.