Digital Life and Physical Death
summary
Research shows digital estates outlive companies and media: expect 50 years of decay while hard drives last ~10 years and DVDs ~30, so recommended practical stack is M-DISC BDXL discs for physical longevity, AES encryption for current post-quantum resilience, and secret sharing via a split passphrase (guardians + successors) so no single person can take assets. Examples include flooded data centers, legal wills becoming public, and a proposed multisig-like key-splitting scheme that is practical though legally fragile.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:27Global Research and Analysis Team
- 3:46Problem 1 - Ownership
- 4:13Problem 2 - Inheritance
- 4:52Different laws
- 7:25Inventory
- 8:30Threat model
- 10:01Always remember
- 10:34Access
- 10:53Knowledge
- 15:42A word about encryption
- 16:33Physical dangers
- 17:38Perception of time
- 23:47Long-Term-Storage
- 27:05Advanced encryption ideas
- 29:11Secret sharing
- 32:10Storage media sharing
- 32:45What to pack
- 34:51Apply
- 39:09RSAConference2023
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