Horcrux
S01:E12

Horcrux

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Episode description

Ever wondered how to get access to your account in systems where there are no admins? Originally Dark Crystal set out to solve this specific question for P2P infrastructures. The project closed down but made an impact on many but especially for Matt Lorentz who set out to continue on the efforts through Horcrux, an application for recovering secrets.

Throughout this conversation we walk through recovery scenarios based on social trust rather than purely math (although it does utilize the algorithm Shamir’s Secret Sharing), the underlying Nostr protocol, challenges with key-based identities and the recently announced 1.0 release of Horcrux! 🎉

0:00Introduction
2:45Origins of Horcrux
9:06Key-based accounts
9:16What is Horcrux?
16:35Example use case
25:50Retreiving account keys
30:50Running over Nostr
39:11Nostr's (bad) rep
40:09Getting in touch with Matt
42:09Where do P2P peeps hang nowadays?
45:25Funding of Horcrux