Hi all,
Working through some things like a Will (I am fine, just normal life planning), and debating on methods for digital management when I do die.
I run a lot of self-hosted services for family and friends, all on secured servers with ZFS and on/off site backups. Key ingredient is Vaultwarden for password management.
I’d like to put something in place so that encryption keys, some docs, and key passwords are released to a tech savvy friend. Anyone know of existing solutions for this?
Requirements of:
- Not providing keys to a third-party beforehand
- Not forgeable to open
- If possible, no “weekly press a button”
I’m thinking some kind of key pair where my friend has the private key and the public key is provided to a family member, and when activated a timer starts where I could cancel the release.
I wonder if you could make a dead man switch something more benign, like have it restart whenever you plug your phone in to charge, turn on a light switch, start a car, all three, etc
Sure. I believe that could be done with minimal effort. Either by a smarthome solution, a script on a wifi router, a script in the autostart of the laptop someone uses every day, or like tasker on a phone. But you need to get it right. Or it’ll fire once you’re on a 14 day trip through Europe (and absent from your house and computer), phones can be lost or replaced… You might move… And you kind of want to make sure it’s robust enough so it actually works once needed, and that might be decades from now…
Film idea: guy loses phone on holiday and rushes to disable his dead man’s switch