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The name is a reference to Harry Potter books.

• forty 6y ago
  It's not a great choice though. The idea of horcrux is that any piece is enough which is basically exactly the opposite of what shamir secret does ;) It was a much better choice for a script with the same name I used a while ago that would duplicate backups on several storage systems. Anyway, who cares about the name, it's a pretty cool website :)
  • 627467 6y ago
    Exactly (about it being the opposite of an "actual" horcrux). But this is not even the first (or the second) split-secret mechanism to make this same reverse analogy
  • sidpatil 6y ago
    Not to mention that there are already two other similar projects with the same name: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21933983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21933983 https://github.com/kndyry/horcrux https://github.com/kndyry/horcrux
• Widdershin 6y ago
  I know. Have you seen what the author has been up to lately?
  • franky47 6y ago
    Mostly newborn caregiving. During nap time: GitHub repository fleet management [1] and end-to-end-encrypted analytics [2]. [1] https://www.notion.so/47ng/Repoverview-f04949cf58b34b41b1422dbd378a5444 https://www.notion.so/47ng/Repoverview-f04949cf58b34b41b1422... [2] https://chiffre.io https://chiffre.io
    • Widdershin 6y ago
      Sorry, didn’t mean to cast shade in your direction, I’m talking about the author of Harry Potter
      • franky47 6y ago
        No worries, your comment makes more sense to me now :)