Saw this posted over here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/163355
sounds like a really fun concept that should be shared here too :D
I’ve always liked this, it has pretty much everything you could want in a personal project: a catchy name and a whimsical idea that is just on the edge of being actually practical.
Yeah, there is something oddly mesmerizing about projects that solve an “already-solved-in-a-more-efficient-way” problem in a weird way
This basically just means the files themselves become the authentication.
I don’t see a singe use-case, where you couldn’t just use normal private-key encryption and just save the private key to a file somewhere else. And if you want to distribute it to multiple locations, so that you need all of them, then there are also encryption methods for that.