Private Digital Legacy: How AfterToMe Protects Your Data
Who can read your will, your secrets, or your crypto keys on a digital legacy platform? Here is exactly how AfterToMe encrypts, isolates, and gates access to your private data — and where the limits are today.
When you trust a platform with confessions, asset records, passwords, a seed phrase, or a letter to a child, “we promise not to look” is not enough. You should know how the data is protected, who could technically reach it, and how that access is controlled. This guide explains AfterToMe’s model plainly.
Encrypted at rest under controlled key custody
Secret Vault content is encrypted with AES-256-GCM before it is stored. Encryption keys are held in controlled server-side custody and are never sent to the browser. Because decryption for release to your recipients happens on the server today, AfterToMe does not describe the vault as zero-knowledge. Instead, operator access is restricted, privileged actions require authenticated administrator roles, and security-relevant actions are written to an append-only audit log.
The layers that protect your data
- Secret Vault encryption — vault contents (secrets, apologies, crypto seeds, letters) are stored encrypted and released only to the designated recipient, only when your conditions are met.
- Per-user isolation — row-level security on every user-data table means one account can never query another account’s records.
- Audited operator access — administrative and security-relevant actions are role-checked and recorded in an append-only audit log.
- Maestro-gated release — sealed documents and vaults open only when the Maestro verifier (proof of death, inactivity, official document, or trusted witnesses) confirms the trigger.
- VeriChain integrity — sealed artifacts receive a tamper-evident hash record, so later changes can be detected.
- Quantum-ready transition design — the cryptographic layer is designed to move to NIST post-quantum primitives as they mature.
Designed for GDPR
AfterToMe’s primary database is hosted in the European Union, and the platform is designed around GDPR principles, including data minimization and the right to erasure. AfterToMe is a technology provider, not a law firm; for legal advice about your estate, consult a qualified professional.
Explore the full AfterToMe Trust Protocol
Architecture summary based on AfterToMe’s current implementation: AES-256-GCM encryption at rest under controlled key custody, row-level security, append-only audit logging, Maestro-gated release, VeriChain integrity records, and an EU-hosted database.
Privacy — common questions
Vault content is encrypted at rest under controlled key custody. Because release to your recipients is decrypted on the server today, AfterToMe does not claim zero-knowledge. Operator access is restricted to authenticated administrator roles and security-relevant actions are audit-logged.
AfterToMe's primary database is hosted in the European Union, and the platform is designed around GDPR, including the right to erasure.
AES-256-GCM encryption at rest under controlled key custody, with VeriChain integrity records for sealed artifacts. The cryptographic layer follows a quantum-ready transition design toward NIST post-quantum primitives (Kyber, Dilithium).
No. Every user-data table enforces row-level security, so each account can only reach its own records, plus anything explicitly released to it as a recipient.