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Is there an alternative scheme that allows the different parties to enter their own password?



Symmetrically encrypt their share with the chosen password.


Not with passwords of their choice.

You could use SSS in combination with BIP to derive a set of 12 or 24-word passphrases, this might be a bit more user friendly.



can you give more information please?


BIP39 is the Bitcoin standard which defines the process to generate the human readable "recovery phrase" for a Bitcoin wallet based on the private key. It's a list of 2048 pre-defiend words. Your private key is chunked into 11bit groups (with a few bits for a checksum) and then assigned the corresponding word.


You could just take the result of running their chosen passwords through the algorithm and use that as the decryption key.




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