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Coincidently, i've been thinking about creating a pet web project to solve #1 utilising PGP. The general idea is that you (the user, manually or through a clie
by zemanel 11y ago
Coincidently, i've been thinking about creating a pet web project to solve #1 utilising PGP.
The general idea is that you (the user, manually or through a client) locally PGP encrypt the text with the public PGP keys of the friends or family whom you'd like to receive the text by e-mail. The encrypted text is then sent/uploaded to the webapp. If you don't report back after X amount of time, the web service sends the text by e-mail to the selected friends or family. The webapp would not have any private keys therefore no access to the unencrypted text.
Not sure if there's already a similar service.
- mathgeek 11y agoOne of the problems I could see here is that PGP is all but guaranteed to be irrelevant in 40+ years when most of the people who'd use such a service are currently expected to die. It'd certainly be helpful in the short term, though, which arguably has more merit.
- zemanel 11y agoTrue. Another problem is that people lose PGP keys and they also expire but i guess it's hard to find a one size fits all solution. In 40+ years, the secret info might not even be relevant anymore.