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After death verification, trusted contacts can release their activated shares to a beneficiary recovery session.

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What the trusted contact does

1

Open the trusted contact portal

The contact uses their portal link.
2

Unlock their private key

They enter the passphrase created during share activation.
3

Unseal the share locally

The browser decrypts the contact-held share. The plaintext share is not sent to the server.
4

Re-encrypt to the beneficiary

The browser encrypts the share to the beneficiary recovery session public key.
5

Submit the release

Eternum stores the beneficiary-bound ciphertext in volatile recovery storage.

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Release storage

Released shares are stored in release Redis with short time-to-live values. They are bound to a beneficiary recovery session and are not reusable across sessions.
If a recovery session expires, the beneficiary may need to start a new session and ask contacts to release shares again.