Practical guides to threshold secrets

Field-tested write-ups on the situations shattr is actually useful for — splitting production credentials, founder succession, crypto cold-storage, break-glass procedures, and where Shamir beats (or loses to) a password manager.

• Ops · Cloud

  How to safely share an AWS root account password across a small team

  Why nobody should hold the root password alone, why a shared password manager isn't enough, and how to land on a 2-of-3 or 3-of-5 threshold that survives a laptop loss without turning a single engineer into a single point of failure.

  9 min read
• Comparison

  Shamir's Secret Sharing vs. password managers — when each is the right tool

  Password managers and threshold sharing solve different problems and combine well. A clear decision matrix for when to reach for 1Password, when to reach for shattr, and when to use both at the same time.

  8 min read
• Crypto · Personal

  How to back up a Bitcoin/crypto seed phrase without trusting one person or location

  Splitting a BIP39 seed phrase across people, geographies, and storage media so a house fire, a bank closing, or a falling-out with one helper doesn't lose the wallet — and so no single person can drain it.

  10 min read
• Governance

  Founder succession: encoding "hit by a bus" into your company's key management

  If you got hit by a bus tonight, could your co-founders open the bank vault, the production cluster, and the customer-data backups by Monday morning? Here's how to make the honest answer be "yes."

  11 min read
• Ops · Incident response

  Break-glass procedures: a practical guide for small ops teams

  What a break-glass credential actually is, why "the admin password in a sealed envelope" doesn't scale past one office, and how to design a procedure your team will actually trust at 3am during a real incident.

  10 min read