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Tepix | on: How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works
Instead of going from two lines to curves, parabolas etc, couldn't you also add another dimension instead?
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nitnelave | parent
Two points make a line in any number of dimensions.
Levitz | root | parent | next
Yes, but without a specific plane to intersect with, that still doesn't define a third point, if you want to check intersection with an axis, you'd need a third point in tridimensional space, for example.
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