Secure Your Legacy

The Digital Heir is a platform that safeguards your important digital information—such as login credentials, crypto wallet keys, or other sensitive data—in a secure, encrypted “note.” We periodically check your activity (via social media logins, WhatsApp, email, or whatever you configure). If you remain inactive past a certain threshold and don’t respond to our confirmation messages, we release a secure link to your designated heir. They can only unlock your information by correctly answering your secret questions.

Yes. All your data—along with the secret questions and your heir’s contact details—is encrypted before it’s stored. We use robust encryption methods (XSalsa20-Poly1305) that require correct secret answers to decrypt your note. We never save your security answers themselves; they exist only in your memory. Once encrypted, your sensitive details remain locked until someone provides the correct answers.

No. Our service is entirely independent of local or national laws regarding inheritance. We verify your well-being through automated checks—if you don’t respond for a set period, the Envelope is released to your heir. There’s no need for a death certificate or other legal paperwork.

You define a “Pipeline” of actions in your account settings—this can include checking your “last seen” status on social media or sending you messages via email, WhatsApp, or SMS. If you fail to respond to these checks within the time intervals you choose, the system escalates through the next steps. Once all attempts fail, we assume you’re no longer available, and we send a link to your heir so they can try to decrypt your note.

No. You can add your heir’s contact details (email, phone, etc.) without informing them. They don’t need to sign up or do anything unless the system determines it’s time to release your note. At that point, they’ll receive instructions on how to decrypt it—by answering your custom secret questions.

If your heir can’t provide the exact answers, the Envelope stays locked. We allow limited attempts—if none are successful, the data remains inaccessible. This design prevents unauthorized access and ensures only someone who truly knows your shared secrets can unlock your note.

There is a small monthly fee (a few dollars per month) for continuous coverage. Think of it like an insurance policy for your digital assets. If you stop paying, your Pipeline will eventually be disabled after a grace period, and your secure envelope won’t be released to anyone.

Currently, each account is limited to one secure note (“envelope”). That note can contain up to 5,000 characters of text, which you can use to include any credentials, instructions, or messages you wish. If you want multiple notes, you’d need to register additional accounts.

Your main password is just for logging into the service; losing it doesn’t automatically compromise your encrypted data. However, if you forget your security question answers, no one—including us—can ever decrypt your note, because we don’t store those answers anywhere. Always keep them safely in mind (or in a secure place).

Absolutely. You can log into your dashboard at any time to edit your secure envelope (decrypt it first by providing your secret answers), change your heir’s contact information, or modify the Pipeline’s escalation steps. Any changes require you to re-encrypt your data, so remember your answers when updating.

Absolutely. We believe in transparency and trust. You can find a link to our GitHub repository in the footer of our website. Feel free to explore the code, review how it has evolved over time, and see how we’ve implemented security measures. We encourage open scrutiny to ensure that what we say matches what our software actually does.

Yes—under normal conditions, it is virtually impossible for an unauthorized person to decrypt your data. We never store your secret answers, and only the specific contacts you designate will even receive a link to your Envelope. Without the correct answers to your questions, no one (not even us) can unlock your note. Maybe after reading all this, you’re still not 100% comfortable entrusting us with your most sensitive secrets. That’s okay. You could just use our service as a kind of ‘middleman’ or secure pointer—for instance, you might only include clues about where the real information is hidden or which book on your shelf contains the details. Then, only someone with the right answers will unlock those hints at the right time.

When it comes to encryption, nothing is 100% unbreakable if someone had unlimited time and super-powerful computers. We use “under normal conditions” to mean that if you choose strong, secret answers, keep your devices secure, and we correctly use modern encryption methods (like XSalsa20-Poly1305), then cracking your data would require resources far beyond what is realistic. “Virtually impossible” simply conveys that, in everyday use, the chance of an attacker succeeding is so minuscule that it isn’t a real concern—even though, in theory, no system is perfect.

Even if our servers were physically stolen or hacked, everything we store is strongly encrypted. Crucially, we never keep your secret answers, so an attacker only gets encrypted data with no practical way to unlock it. As long as your secret questions and answers remain known only to you (and eventually your heir), your Envelope stays secure—regardless of what happens to our hardware.

At present, XSalsa20-Poly1305 and similar ciphers remain extremely secure against classical computers. Quantum computing could change the cryptography landscape in the future, but for now, no publicly known quantum machine can feasibly break this encryption. If large-scale quantum decryption ever becomes feasible, we’ll adapt our cryptography accordingly and let our users know how to transition to quantum-resistant methods.