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by objectiveariel 3024 days ago
Here's a framework and protocol for handling your digital assets after your death:

https://arielelkin.github.io/articles/digital-estate-plannin...

TL;DR:

You need a digital estate planning protocol that is comprehensive, privacy-preserving, reliable, and convenient. The best solution is to use a secret-sharing scheme.

The following sequence is suggested:

  1. Alice encrypts her digital testament using a symmetric encryption algorithm, splitting the key according to a 
  secret sharing scheme.
  
  2. Alice publishes the encrypted testament.
  
  3. To each executor, Alice gives one of the shares of the encrypted key.
If you use a password manager, this is equivalent to giving each of your executors a slice of your password.

Feedback welcome :-)