Comment by sowbug
3 years ago
You could imagine a combination of a Tor-like architecture and Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme to construct a scavenger-hunt encryption system. Maybe 10 dead-man-switch utilities around the world agree to reveal X when Y happens (or doesn't happen), but their policies aren't even revealed until the first N secrets are broadcast. That way you can distribute the risk of collision, and meter the rate of a final secret being revealed or job being executed.
I’ve built exactly this a few years ago.
I was having anxiety that was throwing me into some crazy spirals and I’ve started to document all my stuff and prepare for the worst. I’ve at the time even registered a company and domais in Iceland “eternity.is” so I cold literally have credit cards issued to continue paying for my domains, storage until kids could pick up from where I left.
Splitting Shamir secrets token for the “Root authority” and finding a way to manage quotas was the fun part the help me deal with the anxiety and let things go.
Make that "collusion," not "collision," and thank you once again autocorrect.