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diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/secret-sharing.cabal b/secret-sharing.cabal
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+name:                secret-sharing
+version:             1.0.0.0
+synopsis:            Information-theoretic secure secret sharing 
+description:
+ Implementation of an (@m@,@n@)-threshold secret sharing scheme.
+ A given ByteString @b@ (the secret) is split into @n@ shares, 
+ and any @m@ shares are sufficient to reconstruct @b@.
+ The scheme preserves information-theoretic perfect secrecy in the sense that the knowledge of up
+ to @m-1@ shares does not reveal any information about the secret @b@.
+ .
+ /Example in GHCi:/
+ Suppose that you want to split the string \"my secret data\" into n=5 shares such that
+ at least m=3 shares are necessary to reconstruct the secret.
+ .
+ >> :m + Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 Crypto.SecretSharing
+ >> let secret = pack "my secret data"
+ >> shares <- encode 3 5 secret
+ >> mapM_ (Prelude.putStrLn . show) shares
+ > (1,"\134\168\154\SUBV\248\CAN:\250y<\GS\EOT*\t\222_\140")
+ > (2,"\225\206\241\136\SUBse\199r\169\162\131D4\179P\210x")
+ > (3,"~\238%\192\174\206\\\f\214\173\162\148\&3\139_\183\193\235")
+ > (4,"Z\b0\188\DC2\f\247\f,\136\&6S\209\&5\n\FS,\223")
+ > (5,"x\EM\CAN\DELI*<\193q7d\192!/\183v\DC3T")
+ >> let shares' = Prelude.drop 2 shares 
+ >> decode shares' 
+ > "my secret message!"
+ .
+ The mathematics behind the secret sharing scheme is described in:
+ \"/How to share a secret/.\" by Adi Shamir.
+ In Communications of the ACM 22 (11): 612–613, 1979.
+license:             LGPL-2.1
+license-file:        LICENSE
+author:              Peter Robinson <peter.robinson@monoid.at>
+maintainer:          peter.robinson@monoid.at
+copyright:           Peter Robinson 2014
+category:            Cryptography 
+build-type:          Simple
+cabal-version:       >=1.8
+homepage:            http://monoid.at/code
+tested-with:         GHC==7.8.3
+stability:           experimental
+
+library
+  hs-source-dirs:    src
+  exposed-modules:   Crypto.SecretSharing
+                     Crypto.SecretSharing.Internal
+                     Crypto.SecretSharing.FiniteField
+                     Crypto.SecretSharing.Prime
+
+  build-depends:    base ==4.6.*,
+                    bytestring ==0.10.*,
+                    dice-entropy-conduit >= 1.0.0.0,
+                    binary >=0.5.1.1,
+                    vector >=0.10.11.0,
+                    finite-field >=0.8.0,
+                    polynomial >= 0.7.1
+  ghc-options:      -Wall 
+
+
+test-suite Main
+  type:            exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  x-uses-tf:       true
+  build-depends:   base >= 4 && < 5,
+                   QuickCheck >= 2.4,
+                   test-framework >= 0.4.1,
+                   test-framework-quickcheck2
+  hs-source-dirs:  src, tests
+  main-is:         Tests.hs
+
diff --git a/src/Crypto/SecretSharing.hs b/src/Crypto/SecretSharing.hs
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- |
+-- Module      :  Crypto.SecretSharing
+-- Copyright   :  Peter Robinson 2014
+-- License     :  LGPL
+-- 
+-- Maintainer  :  Peter Robinson <peter.robinson@monoid.at>
+-- Stability   :  stable
+-- Portability :  portable
+-- 
+-- Implementation of an (@m@,@n@)-threshold secret sharing scheme.
+-- A given ByteString @b@ (the secret) is split into @n@ shares, 
+-- and any @m@ shares are sufficient to reconstruct @b@.
+-- The scheme preserves perfect secrecy in the sense that the knowledge of up
+-- to @m-1@ shares does not reveal any information about the secret @b@.
+--
+-- Typically, there are @n@ parties and we would like to give the @i@-th party
+-- the @i@-share of each byte. 
+-- For example, to encode a bytestring @secret@ as @10@ shares, any @5@ of which
+-- are sufficient for reconstruction we could write:
+--
+-- > shares <- encode 5 10 secret
+--
+-- Note that each byte is encoded separately using a fresh set of random
+-- coefficients.
+--
+-- The mathematics behind the secret sharing scheme is described in:
+-- \"How to share a secret.\" by Shamir, Adi.
+-- In Communications of the ACM 22 (11): 612–613, 1979.
+-- 
+--
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+module Crypto.SecretSharing( encode, decode, Share )
+where
+import Crypto.SecretSharing.Internal
diff --git a/src/Crypto/SecretSharing/FiniteField.hs b/src/Crypto/SecretSharing/FiniteField.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable, DeriveGeneric, GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving, TemplateHaskell #-} 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- |
+-- Module      :  Crypto.SecretSharing.FiniteField
+-- Copyright   :  Peter Robinson 2014
+-- License     :  LGPL
+-- 
+-- Maintainer  :  Peter Robinson <peter.robinson@monoid.at>
+-- Stability   :  stable
+-- Portability :  portable
+-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+module Crypto.SecretSharing.FiniteField
+where
+
+import Data.Typeable
+import GHC.Generics
+import Data.FiniteField.PrimeField as PF
+import Crypto.SecretSharing.Prime
+
+
+-- | A finite prime field. All computations are performed in this field.
+newtype FField = FField { number :: $(primeField $ fromIntegral prime) }
+  deriving(Show,Read,Ord,Eq,Num,Fractional,Generic,Typeable)
+  
+
+-- | A polynomial over the finite field given as a list of coefficients.
+type Polyn = [FField] 
+
+-- | Evaluates the polynomial at a given point.
+evalPolynomial :: Polyn -> FField -> FField
+evalPolynomial coeffs x 
+  = foldr (\c res -> c + (x * res)) 0 coeffs
diff --git a/src/Crypto/SecretSharing/Internal.hs b/src/Crypto/SecretSharing/Internal.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable, DeriveGeneric, GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-} 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- |
+-- Module      :  Crypto.SecretSharing.Internal
+-- Copyright   :  Peter Robinson 2014
+-- License     :  LGPL
+-- 
+-- Maintainer  :  Peter Robinson <peter.robinson@monoid.at>
+-- Stability   :  stable
+-- Portability :  portable
+-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+module Crypto.SecretSharing.Internal
+where
+import Math.Polynomial.Interpolation
+
+import Data.ByteString.Lazy( ByteString )
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BL
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as BLC
+import qualified Data.List as L
+import Data.Maybe
+import Data.Char
+import Data.Vector( Vector )
+import qualified Data.Vector as V
+import Data.Typeable
+import Control.Exception
+import Control.Monad
+import Data.Binary( Binary )
+import GHC.Generics
+import Data.FiniteField.PrimeField as PF
+
+import Crypto.SecretSharing.FiniteField
+import Crypto.SecretSharing.Prime
+import System.Random.Dice
+
+
+
+-- | A share of an encoded byte. 
+data ByteShare = ByteShare 
+  { shareId :: !Int                  -- ^ the index of this share 
+  , reconstructionThreshold :: !Int  -- ^ number of shares required for 
+                                     -- reconstruction
+  , shareValue :: !Int        -- ^ the value of p(shareId) where p(x) is the 
+                              --   generated (secret) polynomial
+  }
+  deriving(Typeable,Eq,Generic)
+
+instance Show ByteShare where
+  show = show . shareValue 
+
+-- | A share of the encoded secret.
+data Share = Share 
+  { theShare :: ![ByteShare] }
+  deriving(Typeable,Eq,Generic)
+
+instance Show Share where
+  show s = show (shareId $ head $ theShare s,BLC.pack $ map (chr . shareValue) $ theShare s)
+
+instance Binary ByteShare
+instance Binary Share
+
+-- | Encodes a 'ByteString' as a list of n shares, m of which are required for
+-- reconstruction.
+-- Lives in the 'IO' to access a random source.
+encode :: Int         -- ^ m 
+       -> Int         -- ^ n
+       -> ByteString  -- ^ the secret that we want to share
+       -> IO [Share] -- a list of n-shares (per byte) 
+encode m n bstr 
+  | n >= prime || m > n = throw $ AssertionFailed $ 
+      "encode: require n < " ++ show prime ++ " and m<=n."
+  | BL.null bstr = return []
+  | otherwise = do
+  let bytes = map fromIntegral $ BL.unpack bstr
+  let len = max 1 ((length bytes) * (m-1))
+  coeffs <- (groupInto (m-1) . map fromIntegral . take len ) 
+                            `liftM` (getDiceRolls prime len)
+  let byteVecs = zipWith (encodeByte m n) coeffs bytes
+  return [ Share $ map (V.! (i-1)) byteVecs | i <- [1..n] ]
+
+
+-- | Reconstructs a (secret) bytestring from a list of (at least @m@) shares. 
+-- Throws 'AssertionFailed' if the number of shares is too small.
+decode :: [Share]    -- ^ list of at least @m@ shares
+       -> ByteString -- ^ reconstructed secret
+decode []     = BL.pack []
+decode shares@((Share s):_) 
+  | length shares < reconstructionThreshold (head s) = throw $ AssertionFailed 
+      "decode: not enough shares for reconstruction."
+  | otherwise =
+    let origLength = length s in
+    let byteVecs = map (V.fromList . theShare) shares in
+    let byteShares = [ map ((V.! (i-1))) byteVecs | i <- [1..origLength] ] in
+    BL.pack . map (fromInteger . PF.toInteger . number) 
+            . catMaybes . map decodeByte $ byteShares
+    
+
+encodeByte :: Int -> Int -> Polyn -> FField -> Vector ByteShare
+encodeByte m n coeffs secret = 
+  V.fromList[ ByteShare i m $ fromInteger . PF.toInteger . number $ 
+                evalPolynomial (secret:coeffs) (fromIntegral i::FField) 
+            | i <- [1..n] 
+            ]
+
+
+decodeByte :: [ByteShare] -> Maybe FField
+decodeByte ss =
+  let m = reconstructionThreshold $ head ss in
+  if length ss < m
+    then Nothing
+    else
+      let shares = take m ss in 
+      let pts = map (\s -> (fromIntegral $ shareId s,fromIntegral $ shareValue s)) shares in
+      Just $ polyInterp pts 0
+
+
+-- | Groups a list into blocks of certain size. Running time: /O(n)/
+groupInto :: Int -> [a] -> [[a]]
+groupInto num as
+  | num < 0  = throw $ AssertionFailed "groupInto: Need positive number as argument."
+  | otherwise = 
+    let (fs,ss) = L.splitAt num as in
+    if L.null ss 
+      then [fs]
+      else fs : groupInto num ss 
+
diff --git a/src/Crypto/SecretSharing/Prime.hs b/src/Crypto/SecretSharing/Prime.hs
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- |
+-- Module      :  Crypto.SecretSharing.Prime
+-- Copyright   :  Peter Robinson 2014
+-- License     :  LGPL
+-- 
+-- Maintainer  :  Peter Robinson <peter.robinson@monoid.at>
+-- Stability   :  stable
+-- Portability :  portable
+-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+module Crypto.SecretSharing.Prime( prime )
+where
+-- | Determines the size of the finite field and the maximum number of shares.
+prime :: Int
+prime = 1021
diff --git a/tests/Tests.hs b/tests/Tests.hs
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+module Main
+where
+import Data.Monoid
+import Test.Framework
+import Test.Framework.Providers.QuickCheck2
+import Test.QuickCheck
+import Data.Maybe
+import qualified Data.List as L
+import Control.Monad
+
+import Data.ByteString.Lazy( ByteString )
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as B
+
+import Crypto.SecretSharing.Internal
+import Crypto.SecretSharing.FiniteField
+import Crypto.SecretSharing.Prime
+
+instance Arbitrary ByteString where
+    arbitrary   = fmap B.pack arbitrary
+
+main :: IO ()
+main = defaultMainWithOpts
+       [ testProperty "encodingDecoding" propEncodingDecoding
+       ] mempty
+
+data ShareIdxs = ShareIdxs { shareIdxs :: [Int] }
+  deriving (Show,Eq,Ord)
+ 
+instance Arbitrary ShareIdxs where
+  arbitrary = 
+    liftM (ShareIdxs . L.nub) $ sequence [ choose (1,prime-1) 
+                                         | i <- [1..(prime-1) `div` 2]]
+
+propEncodingDecoding bstr idxs = ioProperty $ do
+  shares <- encode 20 (prime-1) bstr 
+  if null shares && B.null bstr
+    then return True
+    else do
+      let chosen = [ shares !! (i-1) | i <- shareIdxs idxs ]  
+      return (bstr == (decode chosen)) 
+
