Recovery overview

Recovery is the process that lets beneficiaries reconstruct your vault key after death verification.

Recovery actors

Actor	Role
Owner	Creates the vault, trusted contacts, beneficiaries, and recovery shares.
Trusted contact	Confirms status and releases a protected share after verification.
Beneficiary	Starts a claim session and reconstructs the vault key in-browser.
Platform	Stores encrypted data, releases platform-held share material, and enforces verification state.

Owner misses check-ins

The verification pipeline escalates through reminder and contact stages.

Signals are collected

Trusted-contact confirmations and document review contribute signals.

Challenge window opens

A challenge period gives contacts a chance to contest false verification.

Verification completes

The pipeline reaches verified status.

Trusted contacts release shares

Active contacts decrypt their share locally and re-encrypt it to the beneficiary recovery session.

Beneficiary reconstructs the key

The beneficiary combines enough shares in the browser and decrypts vault items.

Recovery depends on enough activated shares being available. Add trusted contacts early and confirm they complete activation.