Because the purpose of Founder's IDs is to be generous and get credit for your contribution for starting this whole thing. It is more of a reward for donation than anything else.
That makes sense. Thank you
. I'll be donating. I watched the short Youtube video on the idea behind the Keyhotee ID and think it has a lot of merit. If I get my chosen name cool otherwise I'll just be happy I played some small part in seeing this grand plan come to fruition.
I do have some concerns but they probably aren't any different than what others have expressed in forum posts I haven't delved into yet. Please don't feel the need to respond if this is being discussed elsewhere; I'm mostly just musing. The Keyhotee ID creates a single point of failure. If for whatever reason my password/private key is compromised my entire online self is compromised. Currently if, for example, Amazon.com gets hacked my exposure is relatively small. Though I suppose one could create several Keyhotee Ids and use one for banking, another for online shopping, another for online forums, etc. but that seems counter to the vision of an ID as a brand and single sign on for our whole internet experience.
The single point of failure is a MAJOR challenge. It is simultaneously the most secure and most subject to catastrophic failure. To mitigate this we are trying to build this in layers. Your Profile which may have multiple Keyhotee IDs within it, is derived from a laundry list of identity information that is hard for the common criminal to gain access to and yet you should always have access to. Governments of course also have access to most of this information.
Then we add a 'brain salt' to this laundry list of information which is your 'long password' and required to recover your account from scratch. It should be something long, but easy to remember such as a poem you wrote or that you write down and backup in multiple locations perhaps divided.
All of this information generates your master profile key from which all of your other keys are derived. This master key is then stored on disk protected by a common 'easy' password that must be entered every time your start Keyhotee. We are considering options for key-logger resistant entry of this password.
So that is what we have come up with so far, we will be seeking ideas for improving that as time goes on.
... Ideas short of the obvious mark on forehead or hand, I presume. Technology as useful as this risks being embraced and extended for evil. Azazel's punishment was for providing man with knowledge which enabled divisiveness. Each gift strengthened the individual; and through division, conquest. Hopefully the situation is nowhere similar, and this is only man acting to liberate from evil. The future has been foretold, He will return with sword to defend as man is not so equipped.
To the topic at hand, no form of key guard is immune. The best keys are for locks that are not known to exist. Fingerprints and dna are God's examples of unique identifiers. Is it possible to hide the lock rather than the key? The key is used in special ways to find locks that then offer a key challenge. A seed to the key begins the discovery. The seed is a simpler combination of information that forms a map into the key. I don't have the answer for you either, but hopefully this will be inspiration for your journey. To you, these would not seem as riddles.