Nothing was more appropriate for Clipperz than being reviewed by Charles Martin on his blog Before you are gone that displays the intriguing and remarkable subtitle “What happens to your Online life when your Real life has ended?”.
About two years ago Giulio started thinking about a simple and effective way to share little secrets because of concerns from his wife Anna. She kept complaining about how, if an accident occurred to Giulio, she wouldn’t be able to access the plethora of online services the family relies on (banks, insurances, phones, ISPs, …) since all the needed credentials were exclusively maintained by Giulio on his computers and on his Palm.
In the meanwhile I was intrigued by the potential of browser based cryptography and how the Internet could really become the safest place to store sensitive data. Putting the two things together led to the birth of Clipperz, an online password manager!
To date the secret sharing capabilities are not yet implemented, however it’s a good time to start moving to Clipperz all those data that could be of same value to your beloved in the sad eventuality of your passing.
Soon you will be able to define sharing criteria for your data, the entire set or just a single card. It will be very easy to create rules like: “After 4 weeks without accessing my Clipperz account, let user XYZ have full access to all my cards” or “On the 18th birthday of my son, give him access to the card containing the details of his “child saving account”.
Sharing won’t be just another nice feature, because it has been the real goal of the whole Clipperz project from the beginning. We always had sharing in mind while designing and implementing the application architecture. We are now working to build a full public key infrastructure based on elliptic curve cryptography and able to exploit the flexibility of Shamir schemes. However all the complexities will be invisible to our users and sharing a card will be a quick and simple task.
Thanks again to Charles for his kind and thorough review.
