It all started with reading this story about the owner of the QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange, due to whose death the exchange clients lost access to 26,500 of their bitcoins.
When I heard about that case, I remembered that over the past year, three of my friends had left this world without having time to say goodbye, and one miraculously survived after a coma (a ruptured aneurysm in the brain, thanks to the doctors, they saved). Now the coronavirus has added to other dangers ...
There is a need for services and methods to transfer passwords, secrets and instructions in the event of death. The main catch is how to ensure that the transfer takes place only after the death of the owner of passwords and secrets?
On Habré, this topic has already surfaced in my memory in two articles, but there were half measures, settings on different sites ... So the idea of a posthumous password transfer service was born, which gives out the passwords written there only after making sure that the password owner does not respond to the message sent to him ( by e-mail).
I have already made a working prototype, you can see how it looks and how it works - http://savepass.ru:8081
The principle of working with the service
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You can come up with a combination of methods, for example, split the password from the archive into two halves - tell one to a friend, and write the second on the savepass.ru service.
I wish everyone to live to a ripe old age and have time to personally transfer all their affairs, secrets and passwords to relatives, to have time to teach their children wisdom.
PS: This service for posthumous passwords is only a prototype, it can be made at a higher quality level, there is definitely a demand. If someone does better and more reliably - let me know, I will go there myself and advise everyone who has time to register on the prototype.
(The service is written in Pascal (Lazarus), using the Raudus component (which, unfortunately, has already become paid)).