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This is one of my great fears. I'm a nomad and all my possessions are in two bags I carry around with me from country to country. It's much easier for this to h

This is one of my great fears. I'm a nomad and all my possessions are in two bags I carry around with me from country to country. It's much easier for this to happen to me. Not sure what the solution is? In the past I've tucked away a piece of paper with recover codes on it at a family members house. So in such an emergency I could call them up and tell them where it is. I should really do that again.

nicbou 4y ago
What about snail mail to a relative？
alexpotato 4y ago
I would imagine you could reach an agreement with a digital savvy lawyer (or law firm) to provide a service to: - store important information - have human processes to get you access if needed
- lupire 4y ago
  This is called "escrow" and is extremely common.
Comevius 4y ago
Recovery codes can be stored publicly, but deniably on the internet. It would be like finding a hay in a haystack. No need to call anyone, just download a picture of a cat and decrypt it.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  This is a cool idea and I've been contemplating it myself - but if you don't control the picture, whay if someone chabges it or recompresses it, then its binary changes and you are screwed. You are better off with a famous historical text, like in 'invincible' they sued Frankenstein. But it has to be with a clear and indusputed original, not something that has mutiple translations. What if drumroll its a good uisecase for blockchain? Like use hash of block number 200 or smth.
  - Comevius 4y ago
    Not exactly how it works, steganography can produce a plaintext, picture or whatever as a cover for the ciphertext, but the cover is not going to be identical to the original. Consequently steganalysis will be able to recover the ciphertext. But with deniable steganography you can use a fake key to decrypt the ciphertext, so the guy standing behind you with a $5 wrench can see that you have nothing to hide.
- Vladimof 4y ago
  A bit like my gpg encrypted crypto wallet... I mail it to everyone
doctorhandshake 4y ago
When I was nomadic I traveled with my 1pass master password (and that only, no other context) on a laminated card in the zippered ‘hidden’ pouch of a travel belt meant to hide money. I figured I might get mugged by someone who knew to look there but that I could perhaps hope to convince them that the card was worthless and keep it even if they took my devices, cards, and cash.
joshstrange 4y ago
If you use something like 1Password maybe setup an email address only you know about that you send yourself (from the new email) an encrypted zip with your 1Password Emergency Vault? Then you have 3 bits of data (4 if you don't save your master password which we can assume you know) protecting your backup: account name, account password, zip password, and vault master password.

nicbou 4y ago

What about snail mail to a relative？

alexpotato 4y ago

I would imagine you could reach an agreement with a digital savvy lawyer (or law firm) to provide a service to: - store important information - have human processes to get you access if needed

lupire 4y ago
This is called "escrow" and is extremely common.

Comevius 4y ago

Recovery codes can be stored publicly, but deniably on the internet. It would be like finding a hay in a haystack. No need to call anyone, just download a picture of a cat and decrypt it.

ClumsyPilot 4y ago
This is a cool idea and I've been contemplating it myself - but if you don't control the picture, whay if someone chabges it or recompresses it, then its binary changes and you are screwed. You are better off with a famous historical text, like in 'invincible' they sued Frankenstein. But it has to be with a clear and indusputed original, not something that has mutiple translations. What if drumroll its a good uisecase for blockchain? Like use hash of block number 200 or smth.
- Comevius 4y ago
  Not exactly how it works, steganography can produce a plaintext, picture or whatever as a cover for the ciphertext, but the cover is not going to be identical to the original. Consequently steganalysis will be able to recover the ciphertext. But with deniable steganography you can use a fake key to decrypt the ciphertext, so the guy standing behind you with a $5 wrench can see that you have nothing to hide.
Vladimof 4y ago
A bit like my gpg encrypted crypto wallet... I mail it to everyone

doctorhandshake 4y ago

When I was nomadic I traveled with my 1pass master password (and that only, no other context) on a laminated card in the zippered ‘hidden’ pouch of a travel belt meant to hide money. I figured I might get mugged by someone who knew to look there but that I could perhaps hope to convince them that the card was worthless and keep it even if they took my devices, cards, and cash.

joshstrange 4y ago

If you use something like 1Password maybe setup an email address only you know about that you send yourself (from the new email) an encrypted zip with your 1Password Emergency Vault? Then you have 3 bits of data (4 if you don't save your master password which we can assume you know) protecting your backup: account name, account password, zip password, and vault master password.