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Secure your secrets with Decentralized Recovery
What is Decentralized Recovery (DeRec)?
What makes DeRec different?
It doesn't need multisig
It can even protect an account with a single key.
It ensures privacy
It can be used to protect anything digital
It checks helpers daily
It automatically rebalances
It is cross-platform, cross-ledger, cross-blockchain, cross-app
Embrace the future with DeRec
Where peace of mind and effortless recovery go hand in hand.
Blogs
DeRec Alliance to Discuss Decentralized Recovery Protocol at Winter 2025 Blockchain Conferences
Alliance officials including Charles Hoskinson and Dr. Leemon Baird to lead conversations about the open DeRec Protocol at blockchain conferences in Denver, Colorado.
Web3 Wallet and All-in-One NFT Platform Provider Kabila Joins the DeRec Alliance
Kabila joins the ecosystem-wide initiative founded by Algorand Foundation, Cardano Developer Input | Output, Hashgraph, Ripple and XRPL Labs to bolster security and trust in the Web3 and crypto industries. The Decentralized Recovery (“DeRec”) Alliance, a community-driven organization focused on the creation and maintenance of an open industry-standard protocol that enables the decentralized protection and recovery of blockchain…
Cardano Developer Input | Output and Hedera Join the DeRec Alliance as Final Founding Members, Alongside Algorand Foundation, Hashgraph, Ripple, and XRPL Labs
Research and engineering company & Cardano developer Input | Output, and Hedera, the open source, leaderless proof-of-stake network, have joined Algorand Foundation, Hashgraph (formerly Swirlds Labs), Ripple, and XRPL Labs, as the final Founding Members of the Decentralized Recovery (DeRec) Alliance, with two-year seats on the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC). DLT Science Foundation, Hashpack, Oasis Protocol Foundation, and Palisade…
Ripple and XRPL Labs Join Hedera and Algorand Ecosystems As Founding Members of DeRec Alliance
Ripple, the leading provider of enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions and XRPL Labs, the company that develops wallets and other software for the XRP ledger, have joined Swirlds Labs and the Algorand Foundation as the Founding Members of the DeRec Alliance, with two-year seats on the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC). Acoer, BankSocial, Blade Labs, The…
Hedera and Algorand Ecosystems Join Forces to Form DeRec Alliance, Enabling Mass Market Decentralized Recovery
Entities from across the Hedera and Algorand ecosystems, including the HBAR Foundation, Algorand Foundation, the Hashgraph Association, Swirlds Labs, the DLT Science Foundation, and industry partners The Building Blocks and BankSocial, are partnering to develop a new interoperability recovery standard which will dramatically simplify the recovery and adoption…
What is Decentralized Recovery?
Invented by Dr. Leemon Baird, Decentralized Recovery (DeRec) is a novel method that safeguards a user’s secrets in a way that they can be recovered in case the user loses the original copy of the secrets. A DeRec application on a user’s device creates an encrypted vault of their secrets, creates cryptographic fragments of the encryption keys, and distributes those…
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Frequently Asked Questions
The DeRec library is designed to be versatile, allowing it to protect various types of information such as cryptographic keys, photos, notes, identity credentials, and passwords. The DeRec API contains a concept called a lockbox, which represents the generic container in which secrets are stored. To enable their users to safeguard password data using decentralized recovery protocols, password managers need to integrate the DeRec API into their applications.
By incorporating DeRec, password managers can eliminate the vulnerability caused by having a centralized database of users’ passwords, which serves as a single point of failure. This integration allows encrypted fragments of their users’ passwords to be securely stored among their trusted set of helpers, thereby eliminating a single target that attackers can exploit.
ERC-4337 doesn’t specifically mention social recovery, although the community understands social recovery to be one of its features, albeit only for on-chain assets – DeRec is a mechanism to recover secrets of any type, such as passwords or documents. In more detail, ERC-4337 avoids introducing new protocol-level changes to the Ethereum blockchain. Instead, it defines a new higher-level pseudo-transaction called User Operation. End users send these User Operations to a higher-level alt mempool called “User Operations Mempool”. A new class of operators called Bundlers pick up these user operations and submit these to a special contract account through a singleton entry point contract. Lastly, EIP 4337 introduces the concept of Paymasters which can sponsor transactions on a user’s behalf. None of these concepts are directly related to social recovery or decentralized recovery.
Please refer to the FAQ question “How does this compare to social recovery on Ethereum?“ to understand the differences between social recovery and decentralized recovery.
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