Eternal Vault is interesting. I would for sure use something like this. However, only if there is a strong story how the vault will survive 20+ years, even if your company is defunct. I do see the pieces scattered around the website (backup to Dropbox, etc), but this story needs to be front and center.
Hi Luke, thanks for the feedback. Will be working on improving the marketing site to share the story in better way, any other feedbacks are also appreciated.
Lastly, would love for you to give the platform a try at https://dash.eternalvault.app/register
Looks interesting, I have one question about the pricing and a main button on the home screen, it says "Protect your family (free forever)" and yet there is a monthly fee (which makes sense of course). What does the free forever bit mean?
So we do provide a free forever plan, with free plan there are usage limits plus some advance features are not there, but all the core security features are fully available on all plans (I strongly feel security is not a good to have but a must have feature)
With that being said, with the paid plans unlock higher limits, advance features (all mentioned on the pricing page).
Let me know if you have any specific questions, also feel free to DM me on my socials or via emails (all available on the contact page).
Wow, it's fun reading the innovative ways people are solving for this, thanks for sharing your approach.
If you don't mind me asking, can you share some more details about this CLI utility? Does it use some existing solutions like GPG or something similar for the tasks you mentioned?
The CLI is pretty simple, it accepts "key:filename" and performs these steps:
Open file and search backwards from end looking for marker bytes.
If found, save the file date/time then extract the data and decrypt using AES.
If the decrypted data passes a checksum test, place the data in a temporary file and load the file into a text editor.
Wait for the test editor to exit. If the file has been changed, retrieve the data from disk, re-encrypt, place it back in it's hiding spot and restore the carrier file's original data/time.
Lastly, overwrite the temporary file with random data before finally deleting and exit.
By the way, my little CLI can also perform TOTP generation. It will search for
a section in the text delimited by "<--- 2FA Start" and "2FA End --->" for a list of "tag:=Base32 key string". To generate a TOTP code and place it into the clipboard, just give it "key:filename,tag".
Just thinking out loud, doesn't keeping it offline increases the risk of first of all things getting lost or worse gets accessed by someone you don't intend to pass it on to?
Depends on how organized and secure your physical properties and possessions are. If you've got creepy housemates or relatives, who might dig through your obviously-personal stuff? Yeah, that makes everything 100X harder. But they might also try an Evil Maid Attack, to get your online stuff.
Do you have any trusted, well-organized relative or friend with a decently secure property?
Do local banking regulations allow for access to safe deposit boxes when the owner is not present or deceased?
Could you park the documents in a manila envelope, in the secure file cabinets of the lawyer who drafted your will?
And if you're an Epic-level Ditz, who might (say) accidentally throw $700M of bitcoin in the trash? At some point, you need to have a competent person handle your affairs for you.
I don't know how easy is it from where you are from, but a friend of mine lost his dad during covid second wave, and it took him months to get just get access to his dad's bank accounts.
Seems very scary, there might be so many things that he doesn't even know about. I tried searching for this, and it seems like there are billions of dollars left in dormant accounts because no one claimed it, majorly because the person's family don't even know how to access those or worse are not even aware about it.
I am my parents only child - they are both in their 80s.
I’m the beneficiary of all of their accounts. I reviewed where they have their accounts at. As long as I know where there accounts are, if it takes months to get to it - which isn’t the case since I’m the beneficiary, why does it matter? I don’t need their money.
However, they did make me a joint account holder on one of their accounts that had enough money in it to take care of final expenses.
Even if I did have passwords to their other accounts, I wouldn’t access them and start transferring money until it went through all of the level processes when they pass - aside from their joint accounts.
Of course joint accounts does require a fair amount of trust in your children.
Wow, that's quite well-thought-out plan. So you mentioned that this encrypted data and its credentials are kept at a physical location and designated one person to be the executor? Is this person someone you know or some firm which handles things like these?
And I don't want to sound rude, but what if the executor passes away before you and you are not aware about it, what's the backup plan?
> Is this person someone you know or some firm which handles things like these?
It's one of my children.
I doubt that they would pass away without me knowing about it since I talk with my children frequently, but if that happened then the plan falls apart a bit. There are actually a couple of failure points aside from that in my plan that could lead to a loss of the data. The odds of that happening are low enough that I'm willing to take that risk, though.
The actually important stuff such as legal documents are kept in a safe deposit box and with my attorney. Those are the only things that I consider to be mandatory, so those are the most recoverable.
That's fair, and it's actually pretty nice that you have thought out about this in such details.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom with me, appreciate it :)
Totally agree with you on this, it was meant to be satirical but I started to realize that there are many places and people to which these type of conversation is really the only medium to communicate, its sad and in an ideal world I would want that people communicate directly without the need of twisting the words, but I am happy that you advocate and appreciate direction communication over something like this.
Trying to fix this problem with Eternal Vault.
Link: https://eternalvault.app
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