Key Management/Usability for Lay People

Key Management/Usability For Lay People

Tuesday 3I

Convener: Raghav Chawla

Notes-taker(s): Jackson Callaway

Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered:

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

Key Management and Usability for Lay People

Normal folks don’t even know about public-private key cryptography, let alone how it works, or if they’re doing it right.

Physical keys versus software keys

Phone becoming the new key. Secure enclaves etc

Centralization happens because of usability

Consensys 

Diddery

SeedQuest

key recovery, mnemonic phrases, series of video game actions as recovery string

have prototypes out, got some reactions

Procedural, shape-based memory instead of memorizing strings 

Anonymy Labs

Consumer mobile app

Create pseudo profiles, with functioning phone numbers and addresses

Lots of issues with key recovery

Blockstack

12 word seed, and password that encrypts the seed

Also an email with a recovery link that requires password

Argens

Social key recovery

URBit

64 bit seed. Just a few words, Is it memorable?

Azimuth identity system with role-based access controls