How the DeRec Protocol Securely Prevents the Permanent Loss of Your Most Important Secrets
One of the most famous axioms about secrets has to do with how a secret between two parties can only be kept as long as one of those parties is dead. Unless of course you have a neuralyzer. In the film series Men in Black, the government agents played by Will Smith and Tommy Lee […]
Why Not To Trust a Lone Entity – Even Yourself – To Best Protect Your Secrets
In our modern, decentralized world, the issue of trust has become more and more important. We need to know that our secrets will not be stolen or lost if we want to protect our money, assets, information, and even identity online. The current digital age has made this increasingly urgent, but it has also provided a […]
What Are Shared Secrets and Why Are They So Tough to Manage?
The famous saying that “two can keep a secret if one of them is dead” begs an interesting question: Is a secret truly a secret if two or more parties know it? According to Google (which sources its definitions to Oxford Languages), a secret is “not known or seen or not meant to be known […]
The Decentralized Recovery Protocol is Complementary to Password Managers. Here’s Why.
One common question we get at the DeRec Alliance is “Why can’t I just use a password manager to do what DeRec does?” It’s actually a great question. First of all, it helps to know just exactly what is meant by the phrase “password manager.” In the same way that the DeRec Protocol can be […]
What is Decentralization and Why It Matters to the Protection and Recovery of Secrets
As concepts go, the idea of “decentralization” is not only core to the blockchain ethos and culture, it describes a principle of secure computing that’s highly disruptive to today’s widely prevalent status quo of centralized architectures. The best way to understand the main benefit of decentralized computing architectures is to reflect on how our decades-long […]
Calling All Wallet Developers: Protect Your Users with the DeRec Protocol
The open and royalty-free Decentralized Recovery (DeRec) Protocol can backup and recover mnemonic phrases (aka “seed phrases” or “secret recovery phrases”), private keys, or both.In fact, it can back up and recover pretty much any secret (see Understanding the Types of Secrets That Can Be Protected with the DeRec Protocol). But it’s important to know […]
Understanding the Types of Secrets That Can Be Protected with the DeRec Protocol
There is no limitation to the types of digital information that can be backed up and recovered using the open Decentralized Recovery (DeRec) Protocol. There is also no limitation on the number of secrets that can be protected during a single engagement with the DeRec Protocol. It’s just as easy to protect 1000 secrets as […]
Charles Hoskinson and Dr. Leemon Baird Discuss the Decentralized Recovery Protocol
In February 2025, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson and Dr. Leemon Baird joined each other on stage at HederaCon in Denver, CO to discuss the Decentralized Recovery (DeRec) Protocol, the DeRec Alliance (the organization responsible for the development and promotion of the protocol), and the future of the blockchain industry. The session was moderated by Genfinity […]
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…