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GlacialVault
Time-locked storage
Definition
Mechanism
Information is encrypted such that it physically cannot be decrypted until a certain amount of time has passed (using Verifiable Delay Functions). No keyholder can rush it. It incorporates a Decay function into the encryption scheme, ensuring decryption is computationally impossible before the delay period.
Invariants
- Delay time immutable.
Risks
Failure modes
Hardware speedups reduce the delay.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Physics
Automatic expiration of stale state
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference