"Honey I shrunk the Kids"... Moment.

It's the 1st Jan 2014, a new year...

something's just creep up on you, no "big bang" just gradual change..

All my bank accounts are now on-line, I never go to a bank any more. don't even know who my bank manager is ?

But one of the most surprising  realisations is that all my Family Documents, and online accounts details are "every where"..

What if I had an accident or died, how would my family gat access to all those important family documents and access details..

Now my first though was my Wife will have everything, but we plan on travelling a lot more together in the future, so what about the kids ect, and where do we put all of the "Important Stuff".

A quick check shows we have stuff all over the place, and some stuff is only known to me..
Last year we moved most of our  infrastructure online, so stuff is now on my mobile, my work computer, in data centres, and the cloud..
every picture I take, is stored on my "Google drive" linked to my mobile phone..


So Where Does One securely Keep Important Family Documents?
While there are lots of online storage, none really come close to providing the secure means of allowing access to "trusted" people who is not yourself..

All rely on an account and access password details, once you give it away, then it is no longer secure.. and keeping track of these ever growing account details is an issue in itself..

The latter I solved with a secure password storage program we developed, based upon need, many years ago, when I founded a security company "Spyrus Australia" .. and still use today..

I use it because I know how it was developed, and it utilises some of the high assurance cryptographic technologies we developed for the Military, Governments and fortune 50 companies across the globe..


A Solution?

Let’s borrow an ancient yet incredibly useful idea: if it’s really important to get your facts right about something, be sure to have at least two or three witnesses. This is especially true concerning matters of life and death but it also comes up when protecting really valuable things.
By the 20th century, this “two-man rule” was implemented in hardware to protect nuclear missiles from being launched by a lone rogue person without proper authorization. The main vault at Fort Knox is locked by multiple combinations such that no single person is entrusted with all of them. On the Internet, the master key for protecting the new secure domain name system (DNSSEC) is split between among 7 people from 6 different countries such that at least 5 people are needed to reconstruct it in the event of an Internet catastrophe.
If this idea is good enough for protecting nuclear weapons, the Fort Knox vault, and one of the most critical security aspects on the Internet, it’s probably good enough for your Family Documents.

The Technologies..
One of the technologies we developed to protect the "Root" key in our Certification technologies was  a split key technique, which distributed parts to many individuals ( these were on secure smart cards), and the process of combining these parts back together.

One of the problems with very secure encryption, is that is it secure, and cannot be circumvented even by the people who developed it. Hence once your data is encrypted, one of the real issues is how to prevent  the loss of access to your data, the issue we needed to solve for the Root private key used in a global certification infrastructure.


The Family Document Service, is born..
We have developed a secure solution, which addresses the issues above, and provides secure storage, with a split key access scheme.

We plan to released in the first quarter 2014.

Complete piece of mind, for those Family Documents, from only $20 per account per year.

See http://my.familydocuments.biz for details..




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