Anastasis SARL

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Anastasis SARL was created to offer a usable key backup solution for privacy-enhancing technologies. According to the company's own account, its contributors came from open-source communities and worked together with experts from the Bern University of Applied Sciences to produce an innovative protocol and reference implementation. The company was founded in 2020, according to Wikidata. The project was published as a GNU package, giving it a place in the Free Software ecosystem and aligning it with the GNU project's licensing and documentation norms. The company states that Anastasis has already caught the interest of additional Free Software privacy projects, including GNU Taler, the Re:claimID identity management system, and the NymTech cryptocurrency. The design of the system responds to a specific regulatory and practical problem: European e-money issuers using electronic wallets must enable consumers to always recover their electronic funds, for example if devices are lost, and must not assume that consumers are able to remember or securely preserve key material. Anastasis addresses this by letting users split their encrypted secrets across multiple service providers, so that providers learn nothing about the user beyond possibly some details needed to authenticate them, and only the authorized user can recover the key by following standard authentication procedures such as SMS-TAN, video identification, a security question, or e-mail. The company's stated goal is to offer key backup and recovery for a broad range of applications, combining key management as a service with support for integration. Its principles are privacy (no collection of personal data, with authentication data remaining encrypted and inaccessible until needed during key recovery), Free Software (only Free Software components, with fully available and unencumbered documentation), usability for ordinary users rather than only experts, and a flexible trust model that does not rely on the trustworthiness of individual providers.

• 2020

  Anastasis SARL founded (per Wikidata).

• Protocol and reference implementation developed with contributors from open-source communities and experts from the Bern University of Applied Sciences.

• Published as a GNU package (GNU Anastasis).

• Interest expressed by Free Software privacy projects including GNU Taler, Re:claimID, and NymTech.

Privacy-by-design, Free Software key backup and recovery for electronic wallets and privacy-enhancing technologies, with a flexible trust model that avoids reliance on any single escrow provider.

• GNU Anastasis

  A 'keep-your-own-key' crypto-custody solution with password-less key recovery via multi-factor, multi-party authentication. Users split encrypted secrets across multiple escrow providers and recover them by satisfying standard authentication procedures.

• Key management as a service

  Hosted key backup and recovery combined with support for integration into third-party applications.

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