Comment on NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower [video]parentComments−Zakharov13yJust a spur of the moment thought, but can you encrypt the master password such that you need passwords from three of four (or any N of M) people to decrypt it?−gjm1113yYes. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing; if you know a bit of mathematics, Shamir's method is particularly elegant.−einhverfr13yYou can, but then key management is a bitch.....
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Just a spur of the moment thought, but can you encrypt the master password such that you need passwords from three of four (or any N of M) people to decrypt it?
Yes. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing; if you know a bit of mathematics, Shamir's method is particularly elegant.
You can, but then key management is a bitch.....