BeyondLife: Third-Party Digital Will Application

In the digital age, nearly everyone leaves behind a vast array of digital footprints, including social media posts, emails, and files or photos stored in the cloud.Managing these digital assets after death has become an increasingly significant challenge.Major companies like Meta and Google provide limited and rigid options to users that require configuration separately.There are a handful of third-party closed-source services that are complex and do not have features deemed necessary.In this demo paper, we introduce BeyondLife, the first cross-platform solution for managing digital wills and securely handling digital assets after death.It introduces a crossplatform solution for digital wills, addressing limitations in existing services.The system combines a customized encryption scheme, multi-cloud storage, and decentralized architecture to enable secure and granular digital asset management.A prototype is available at https://github.com

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2025-05-08
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3701716.3715168
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Cryptography and Data Security
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BeyondLife: Third-Party Digital Will Application

Salil S. Kanhere, Jesse Laeuchli, Arash Shaghaghi, Xinzhang Chen
Cryptography and Data Security
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BeyondLife: Third-Party Digital Will Application

Salil S. Kanhere, Jesse Laeuchli, Arash Shaghaghi, Xinzhang Chen
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Abstract

In the digital age, nearly everyone leaves behind a vast array of digital footprints, including social media posts, emails, and files or photos stored in the cloud.Managing these digital assets after death has become an increasingly significant challenge.Major companies like Meta and Google provide limited and rigid options to users that require configuration separately.There are a handful of third-party closed-source services that are complex and do not have features deemed necessary.In this demo paper, we introduce BeyondLife, the first cross-platform solution for managing digital wills and securely handling digital assets after death.It introduces a crossplatform solution for digital wills, addressing limitations in existing services.The system combines a customized encryption scheme, multi-cloud storage, and decentralized architecture to enable secure and granular digital asset management.A prototype is available at https://github.com

University of Canberra (AU), UNSW Sydney (AU)
Openalex Percentile: Top 95%
Cryptography and Data Security
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