How To Install ssss on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ssss on Kali Linux.

What is ssss

ssss is:

Implementation of Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme. The program suite does both: the generation of shares for a known secret, and the reconstruction of a secret using user-provided shares.

Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme allows a secret to be split in to shares. These shares can then be distributed to different people. When the time comes to retrieve the secret then a preset number of the shares need to be combined. The number of shares created, and the number needed to retrieve the secret are set at splitting time. The number of shares required to re-create the secret can be chosen to be less that the number of shares created, so any large enough subset of the shares can retrieve the secret.

This scheme allows a secret to be shared, either to reduce the chances that the secret is lost, or to increase the number of parties that must cooperate to reveal the secret.

There are three methods to install ssss on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ssss Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ssss using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ssss

Install ssss Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ssss using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ssss

Install ssss Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ssss using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ssss

How To Uninstall ssss on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ssss package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ssss

Uninstall ssss And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ssss and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ssss

Remove ssss Configurations and Data

To remove ssss configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ssss

Remove ssss configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ssss configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ssss

Dependencies

ssss have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgmp10

References

• ssss website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ssss package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.