Digital legacy

Your digital estate, handed over only when it should be.

Name a digital executor and the delegates you trust. Store the accounts, documents, and instructions your family would otherwise be locked out of — end-to-end encrypted — and release them under a time-lock or a quorum. Not a day too early, and never to the wrong hands.

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Encrypted on your device first
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Quorum release — no lone key
Time-lock
With a notice window to cancel
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Keys we can read

The families who get locked out

Almost everything about a life now lives behind a login. When someone dies, their family inherits the house and the savings — but not the password to the email that controls them, the cloud with twenty years of photos, or the list of which subscriptions to stop. Providers each run their own slow, inconsistent process, and grieving people spend months locked out of the very things meant to comfort them. The fix isn’t writing passwords on paper, where anyone can read them today. It’s arranging the handover ahead of time, so the right people can step in only when they truly need to.

How the handover works

Each card pairs the worry with the mechanism. The cryptography behind it is documented on the security page.

Name a digital executor and delegates

The worry

When someone dies, the family is often locked out of everything at once: the email that resets every other password, the photos, the bills, the subscriptions quietly draining the account. Grief plus a locked phone is a cruel combination.

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You name a digital executor — and, if you want, separate delegates for separate things. The right person gets the right access: your sister handles the photos, your solicitor handles the accounts, no one gets the lot just because they got there first.

Time-locked release

The worry

You want your people to be able to get in if something happens — but not today, and not just because they asked. A handover that can be triggered on a whim isn’t a handover, it’s a back door.

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Release can be put behind a time-lock and a check-in you keep answering. If you stop responding for the period you chose, and only then, the handover begins — with a notice window so a false alarm can be stopped.

Quorum release — no lone key

The worry

Handing one person the keys to your whole digital life asks a lot of them, and of your trust. One coerced, careless, or compromised individual shouldn’t be able to open everything.

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You can require a quorum: several trusted people each hold a share, and an agreed number of them — two of three, say — must act together to open the vault. No single person, including us, can do it alone.

Encrypted, with your instructions attached

The worry

Access without context is half a gift. Your executor opens the vault and finds a wall of logins with no idea which matter, what your wishes were, or who to tell.

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Everything is end-to-end encrypted on your device before we ever see it, and you can attach plain-English instructions to each item: what it is, what to do with it, who to contact. We store ciphertext we cannot read.

What to store — a starting checklist

You don’t have to do it all at once. Start with the keys to everything else and work down.

The keys to everything else

  • Primary email account (the one that resets all the others)
  • Phone PIN / device passcodes
  • Password manager master password
  • Two-factor backup codes

Money & obligations

  • Bank and investment account details
  • Recurring subscriptions to cancel
  • Insurance policies and pension details
  • Outstanding loans or bills

Memories & identity

  • Photo and video archives
  • Social media and how you’d like them handled
  • Domains, blogs, or creative work
  • Loyalty points and digital assets

People & wishes

  • Who to notify, and how
  • A letter or message to leave behind
  • Funeral or memorial preferences
  • Location of the physical will and key documents

Why it holds up over the long run

A legacy plan only works if the vault is still there, and still secret, years from now. Glassbreak stores your data across independent clouds with no shared point of failure, and protects it with post-quantum encryption built for decades-long horizons — so the plan you make today still holds when it’s finally needed.

Frequently asked questions

What happens to my accounts when I die?

Without a plan, usually nothing good: providers each have their own slow, inconsistent process, and your family is often locked out for months — sometimes permanently. A digital legacy vault fixes the handover ahead of time. You decide who gets access to what, store it end-to-end encrypted, and set the conditions under which it’s released, so the right people can step in without fighting a dozen support desks.

Is this a will? Does it replace one?

No. A vault holds and releases information under the rules you set; a will is a legal document about your estate. They work together: keep your will with your solicitor, and use the vault for the passwords, accounts, and instructions a will can’t safely contain. We’re not lawyers — talk to a qualified professional about how the two fit together for your wishes and local law.

Can my executor see everything while I’m still alive?

No. Until your release conditions are met — a time-lock elapsing, a quorum acting, or a missed check-in — your executor and delegates can’t open anything. They simply hold a share or a standing nomination. You stay in full control while you’re here, and you can change who’s named at any time.

What stops someone triggering the handover early?

Two things. Release can require a quorum, so no single person can start it alone. And time-locked release comes with a notice window: if a handover begins, you’re alerted and can cancel it before anything opens. A false alarm — a missed holiday check-in — never silently hands over your vault.

Can Glassbreak read my data or hand it to someone?

No. Everything is encrypted on your device before it reaches us, and we hold zero usable keys. We store ciphertext we cannot read, so there’s nothing for us to hand over, lose, or be compelled to decrypt. Only your named people, meeting your conditions, can open the vault.

Spare your family the lock-out

Create a free vault, add the email that controls everything else, and name the person who should be able to reach it. It’s the single kindest hour you can give the people you’ll leave behind.

Glassbreak does not provide legal or estate-planning advice. A vault holds and releases what you put in it under the rules you set; it is not a will and does not replace one. Consult a qualified professional about how it fits your wishes and the law where you live.

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