Use case
Payments
Enable resilient recovery of keys used in payment infrastructure and digital money systems.
The challenge
What breaks today.
Payment and digital-money systems increasingly place cryptographic keys in the hands of end users and merchants. Availability expectations are high, and a lost key must not translate into lost funds.
How Anastasis applies
- Recovery material is distributed across providers that may be operated by different institutions within a scheme.
- Policies can differentiate between low-value consumer recovery and high-value merchant or institutional recovery.
- The design avoids a scheme-wide custodian that would become a systemic single point of failure.
What to think about
- Scheme governance determines who may operate a recovery provider, and on what terms.
- Recovery latency and support processes should be modelled alongside the cryptography.
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