# Friends Recovery (Secret Multisig) ## Preamble Idea: 152-friends-recovery Title: Friends Recovery (Secret Multisig) Status: Draft Created: 2018-04-07 Requires: 145-identity ## Summary A multisig controller that store owners privately and requires a secret to sign a call, to be used as a recovery for Identity through trust of selected friends. ## Swarm Participants - Lead Contributor: @3esmit - Testing & Evaluation: - Contributor: @richard-ramos - PM: - UX: ## Product Overview A bad experience of cryptosystems is the lost or exposure of a private key, which can lead to irreversible situations. Some contracts, such as Identity, support a recovery address which can recover a lost key or compromised contract. This product will provide a way of Status users selecting friends to recover this contracts, together with a built-in user interface for requesting to friends and signing recovery request from locked-out friends. ### Product Description User would be able to: - Use semi-private data as secret, such as personal details or biometric data. - Select privately a big amount of friends able to recover but only require a few of them Locked out user would be able to: - Request recovery to friends User's friends would be able to: - Only know they are recovery when recovery is completed - Sign recovery call allowance for Friends Recovery contract to help locked out user (gas is paid by anyone/user) - Call Friends Recovery from Identity call allowance to help locked out friends (gas is paid by allower) ### Requirements & Dependencies - Idea 151-Identity is the first use case of this product, but Friends Recovery contract itself don't depend on Identity. ### Minimum Viable Product Goal Date: 2018-07-01 Description: - Users can use a semi-private secret answer as recovery lock - Users can use friends as allowance for Identity recovery - Users are notified when a recovery is requested for them - Users can help locked out friends to recover their Identity without paying gas ## Success Metrics - Users are able to easly recover their Identity. ## Exit criteria - Becomes an extension of Identity settings ## Supporting Role Communication ## Copyright Copyright and related rights waived via [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).