Mnemonic seeds for risky situations
2025-06-22 , Main Stage

An important but overlooked use case for digital asset mnemonic seeds is risky situations like border crossings, where inspection or seizure of property could make possession of a written mnemonic dangerous. How can these situations be handled safely? In this talk, we'll look at existing approaches with a critical eye and identify important concerns.
We'll propose a controversial alternative that uses off-the-shelf cryptographic components in a new way.

Aaron Feickert is a cryptographer, mathematician, and physicist whose current research focuses on privacy-preserving signature and proof constructions.

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