Eight pre-flight questions catch silent loss before you commit. Five toggles decide whether your downstream code sees the document you have or a quietly wrong version of it.
A practical guide to splitting a recovery secret with Shamir Secret Sharing, choosing a 3-of-5 threshold, understanding the GF(256) implementation, and adding the integrity checks the scheme does not provide.
Country code, length, mod-97. Three decisions in a strict order — the only structure an IBAN validator needs to catch every typo without rejecting valid numbers.