Splintering gives passwords the security of a cryptographic key

Funny! That was exactly how our first design conversation went! A year after and lots of tests and experiments to validate we came up with Splintering - a method that encrypts a 'human-grade' password (aka 'much weaker than a private key') and shards it across multiple nodes so the complexity and difficulty of breaking it increases to levels corresponding to a cryptographic key. Splintering is an added-security extension to a fully decentralized authentication scheme. For details on how exactly, you're welcome to dive into the paper or at a glance the flow diagram on our git, where we’ve also published our open source code. https://github.com/tide-foundation/Tide-h4x-for-Privacy