initial save of my chatGPT coding

shared-secret/chatgpt-example.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+from secretsharing import PlaintextToHexSecretSharer
+
+# The secret that we want to split
+secret = "my_secret_password"
+
+# The number of shares that we want to generate
+n_shares = 5
+
+# The threshold (i.e., the minimum number of shares required to reconstruct the secret)
+threshold = 3
+
+# Generate the shares
+shares = PlaintextToHexSecretSharer.split_secret(secret, n_shares, threshold)
+
+# Print the shares
+for share in shares:
+  print(share)
+
+# To reconstruct the secret, we need at least the threshold number of shares
+# Let's say we have these three shares:
+shares_to_reconstruct = [shares[0], shares[2], shares[4]]
+
+# Reconstruct the secret
+secret = PlaintextToHexSecretSharer.recover_secret(shares_to_reconstruct)
+
+# Print the secret
+print(secret)
+