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Intriguing. How do you do backups of your keybase keys? My understanding is that this is the purpose of being able to export private keys for blockchains.
by sanderjd 5y ago
Intriguing. How do you do backups of your keybase keys? My understanding is that this is the purpose of being able to export private keys for blockchains.
- EGreg 5y agoJust replace the backup with what I said: an “account” you pre-created, which you don’t use until you need it. You can create N “accounts” which are not tied to devices. In fact, that would also be good for a quotum to “outvote” whoever found M devices, to repudiate them. (Otherwise it would have been a stalemate.) Using “virtual accounts” you can bootstrap from one private key + U of V keys from a set that you gave to friends + family, to reconstitute your account should something go wrong and you lose ALL your devices. So, just to be clear: either a private key is stored in a device, or it would have to be paired with U of V other keys that you gave out, in order to activate a new device one time with that key. But the real provisioning and repudiation of keys would be in a smart contract on the blockchain. That is — pardon the pun — the key to the whole thing :)