eljojo's comments

On: ReMemory Is the Amnesia-Hedging Buddy Backup You Didn't Know You Needed

[eljojo]

Combining Shamir Secret Sharing with age-encryption and WASM-web apps, to provide an easy and safe mechanism to vault and split data safely among friends to be recovered in case of emergency.

On: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

[eljojo]

great story :')

On: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

[eljojo]

i tell my friends about it, so they remind me in case I lose my memory

On: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

[eljojo]

I don't have timelock encryption, but have been looking into integrating https://docs.drand.love/docs/timelock-encryption/#use-cases

On: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

[eljojo]

thanks for your thorough review and congrats on your launch! for my personal use case, I'm not worried about coercion, but many have highlighted it as a real risk. my answer to that is to do what you suggest: update my contact list yearly, send new ZIP files with bundles, and ask them to delete the previous ones.

On: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

[eljojo]

"who has five friends?" has been the number one comment I've received on this, by far. a bubble just popped for me

[kortex → eljojo]

You should add a feature where you can select the shares/threshold, with 3/5 being the default.

edit: d'oh! you do, I didn't get that far into using it yet cause I was on mobile.

On: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

[eljojo]

lol i'm so neurodivergent i had to read this 5 times to understand 3M didn't just get into the encryption business

[lucb1e → eljojo]

Want to clue a brother in?

Edit: wait, sticky notes maybe? I thought they were a tape company (I'm not sure they're active in my country) but it just occurred to me that maybe they sell other office supplies as well

[croisillon → lucb1e]

Yes, Post-It™, where people famously write passwords down

On: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

[eljojo]

I've been so tempted to try out the apple password manager, I'm fully vested in their ecosystem, but the lock in is too big for me to feel comfortable with.

This is the sort of stuff that terrifies me https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

[rawgabbit → eljojo]

It also terrifies me. The best solution I can come up is to export out my passwords to a thumb drive every few months.

On: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

[eljojo]

services going offline is a big concern for me! that's why my solution is offline first, I like the idea of the encrypted backup living in my friend's email inbox and working entirely without internet. a true hard copy.

for the time lock mechanism, how do you go about it? I'm interested in exploring using drand time lock, but that also relies on the service continuing to run (which is admittedly very likely) https://github.com/drand/tlock

On: Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

[eljojo]

I didn't know about bit warden doing this until today! I definitely have to look closer into it, been using 1password for more than a decade and I keep being disappointed. I'd definitely like off-sourcing this to someone instead of building it myself