Show HN: Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die
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Show HN: Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die
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evil-olive · · focus · HN ↗
> After 90 days of countdown, 21 days of warnings, and 14 days of grace, the envelope opens
vs
> it needs that company to still exist and be honest on the day it matters
> there's no company in the middle
which is it?
there's no middleman, but also I need to log in to your app regularly to avoid being declared dead?
jpage2 · · focus · HN ↗
With a company ran vault, they can mess up by failing to exist, not being honest, and they have to make the correct decision when someone dies.
With Seal, no single person makes the decision when the person is gone/inactive. There's no company to decrypt anything, which is what I was trying to paint the picture of with "no company in the middle", but yeah you have to also make sure the software exists so they can check in.
The envelopes also will open when the user can no longer check in because the countdown will end and the family can use the keys to decrypt without a backend needed.