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would it be possible to program a smart contract tied to the key owner's death in some provable way, in order to release a key retrieval mechanism to their heir
by camillomiller 5y ago
would it be possible to program a smart contract tied to the key owner's death in some provable way, in order to release a key retrieval mechanism to their heir?
- notreallyserio 5y agoI suppose you could surgically implant a private key inside your body that could be used to decrypt a cache of your other or private keys. It'd have to be somewhere that can't be accessed without killing you, though.
- csomar 5y agoTorture you to reveal the secret location and in the process kill you to get the private key. Nice idea.
- rwiggum 5y agosince smart contracts are turing complete, you could easily write a "dead mans switch" contract that requires check in, say, every 30 days. the contract could be written such that if two or more checkins in a row are missed, then the assets can be withdrawn by any authorized users.