Ask HN: Should I put our passwords in our wills?

Post by ezekg » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 5:51 PM UTC

RKearney wrote: post #10

ezekg wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So does that mean they store your passwords in some other way as opposed to only storing those encrypted with your master password? I’ve only used 1pass, so maybe it’s different, but that seems sketchy that they can just access your data without your master password to decrypt things. Or is this recovery system all handled locally on a machine you own?

https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/emergency-access/ From the documention: LastPass uses public-private key cryptography with RSA-2048 to allow users to share the key to their vault with trusted parties, without ever passing that information in an unencrypted format to LastPass. When Emergency Access is activated, each user has a pair of cryptographic keys – a public key to allow others to encrypt data for the user, and a…

Post by sova » Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 7:34 PM UTC

logronoide wrote: post #7

I’m not sure about passwords. But I have left clearly explained how my family should use my private keys for my Bitcoin and Ethereum cold wallets.

Post by lishuaichao » Wed, Jan 03, 2018, 12:33 PM UTC