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How can I share/store sensitive data for family
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No solution I've found, but I've been working on this myself. As I see it, there are two situations, and four categories of data:
I. My wife survives me II. We both die, e.g. in a car
I've been thinking about getting an M-Disk writer for media, because ultimately, backing up to B2 is fine until I'm gone. Family members will need physical media for the photos and stuff.
For secrets, I'm planning using SSSS. Keys will be given to members on each side of my wife's and my families. If we both die, they'll have to get together, put their keys together, and decrypt the KeePass DB.
The online accounts are almost all financial; those are in a KeePass DB. My wife already has access to all of that through power is attorney, and if we both go, it's SSSS for the family.
The third data category are accounts and services that will be to be stopped. I don't subscribe to much, but the VPS provider and B2 will have to be terminated, and a document with instructions and with the credentials is in the SSSS archive.
The final category are assets: home, mortgage info, where and what the M-Disks are, a copy of the will that deals with all of the valuables, and any notes about anything not covered in the will. That's in documents in the SSSS archive.
I still have to put the archive together. I've been working toward a state where all of the secrets are in a cryptfs that's shared on the LAN and automatically encrypted with SSSS and synced to a share. Once I have that automated, I'll communicate out the SSSS keys and a how-to document.
In some ways, it was easier when you just died and your kids fought over the china. But I have a plan.