Project
Hereafter — an encrypted digital legacy opened after death
The letter you write today, the audio and video you record; when you are gone, they open for the people you love with a three-word passphrase.
The problem
There is no safe, personal digital route for the letter, the voice recording or the video people want to leave for their loved ones after they die — social media accounts were not designed for this.
The solution
An app with letters, audio and video, a book of reconciliation, final wishes and a PDF "Legacy File". Its most striking part is the "Digital Vault": a legacy file encrypted with a 50-round SHA-256 key derivation and opened with a three-word passphrase (for example APPLE-CLOUD-SEA).
The question that set the scope was not "how many features" but "who am I forced to trust". Recordings stay on the device and the vault file travels through a channel the user chooses; there is no server sitting in between holding the file. That simplified the product technically and made its most critical promise — "nobody but me can read this" — defensible.
Technology
A detail worth highlighting
The vault file and its passphrase are deliberately shared through separate channels — the person sends the legacy file while still alive and passes on the passphrase separately. The moment the family downloads the app and opens the file with the passphrase, the app introduces itself as well.
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