From: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock.name>
To: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:42:01 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret
	Sharing of Bitcoin private keys
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On Saturday, 29 March 2014, at 5:28 pm, Roy Badami wrote:
> Right now there are also people simply taking base58-encoded private
> keys and running them through ssss-split.
> 
> It has a lot going for it, since it can easily be reassembled on any
> Linux machine without special software (B Poettering's Linux command
> line SSSS implementation[1] seems to be included in most Linux distros).
> 
> roy
> 
> [1] http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/

Respectfully, it's also possible to take a base58-encoded private key and run it through GPG, which is included in most Linux distros. But yet we have BIP38.