add warning to README

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Sebastian Gesemann
2015-02-01 13:01:58 +01:00
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@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ A secret can be split into N shares in a way so that
a selectable number of shares K (with K ≤ N) is required
to reconstruct the secret again.
**Warning**: I don't yet recommend the serious use of this tool.
I don't want to guarantee that shares computed with version 0.0.1
can still be decoded with newer versions. For now, this is
experimental. Also, I'm currently investigating whether my use
of a non-prime field actually violates the information-theoretic
security.
# Example
Passing a secret to secretshare for encoding: