FAQ of the last will keeping place

  1. What is the last will keeping place.
  2. The last will keeping place is a server that safely keeps the encrypted will and password of the personal computer.

  3. Is the will keeping place planned about the information leakage?
  4. Yes, the information leakage measures are executed by using the encryption technology.
    User's data (user-name, password, encryption will, and mail address) is encrypted and kept.
    Your important will keeps only the encrypted one.

  5. What is the first registered in the last will keeping place?
  6. Your name, password and mail address are registered first.

  7. Can the mail address of the cellular phone be used?
  8. Yes, It can be used.
    However, please "support@yaruben.sakura.ne.jp" do not become a spam mail treatment on the cellular phone side.
    We will recommend being confirmed by the test transmission function.

  9. What entrust do I get to the last will keeping place?
  10. Please entrust the following.

    (example)
    It was a happy life. Thank you, everyone of my family.
    Well, there is password of my personal computer.
    PC user-name xxxxxx password xxxxxxxx
    The file with the bank account, online services, is
    C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxxx\My Documents\secret.doc
    This is encrypted.
    The password of this code file is xxxxxxxx.
    My hope is you are happy.

    The fllowing example is not perfectly safe, because there is a online-service's user account and password.

    (not best example)
    It was a happy life. Thank you, everyone of my family.
    All of my passwords are stored in the 'secret memo' of Yaruben(on-line service).
    URL: http://yaruben.sakura.ne.jp/ya
    user: granpa@mail.com passwd: xxxyyyzzz
    key of secret memo: aaabbbccc
    Back up of secret memo is in my PC(user:granpa passwd:012345676).
    C:\Users\granpa\Documents\MyProfile\PrivateBack.txt

    It is good and safe that you copy the encrypted files in the PC to the USB memory of your family. Because 'the last will keeping place' will send the password of it to your family if you will have the it.

  11. Is there a thing not entrusted to the last will keeping place?
  12. The thing not entrusted is the next.


    The purpose of the reason is to prepare for an emergency information theft attack.

    It is necessary to keep the user-name and the password of online services in the encryption file in the personal computer.

  13. What is the encryption file in the personal computer?
  14. The encryption file in the personal computer is a file that encrypts and preserves the secret.
    There are various tools, and use the tool of the favorite, please.

    Please do not let the encryption file in the personal computer be seen from the outside of the personal computer by way of the network for safety.

  15. What do I register to another in the last will keeping place?
  16. It is necessary to register your family's mail address and name.

  17. Should my family know in advance?
  18. Yes, they should know in advance.
    In a word, please inform your family that your encrypted will is sent from the last will keeping place several days after you became absent.
    However, it is beforehandly necessary to inform your family of the key string to decode your encrypted will.
    I recomend you should inform it once a year.

    (example)
    Subject: the key of my encrypted will
    Body:
    If I will lost my will,
    my encrypted will is sent from the last will keeping place
    after a few days.

    the key of my encrypted will is xxxxxxxx .

    It contains the password of my PC
    and the password of secret file with bank accounts and online services accounts.

    This is important.

    The fllowing example is not perfectly safe, because there is a online-service's user account and password.

    (not best example)
    Subject: the key of my encrypted will
    Body:
    If I will lost my will,
    my encrypted will is sent from the last will keeping place
    after a few days.

    the key of my encrypted will is xxxxxxxx .

    It contains the password of Yaruben(online-service)
    I deposited the ciphertext in Yaruben.

    This is important.

  19. What is the safety confirmation mail?
  20. When the safety confirmation is ON, the last will keeping place regularly transmits mail to you.
    However, the initialization of the safety confirmation is OFF.
    Please do the safety confirmation ON when the will is made and family's mail address is registered.

  21. What should I do when I get the safety confirmation mail?
  22. You must access URL described in mail to inform the will keeping place of your alive.

  23. What happen, if not responding to the safety confirmation mail?
  24. Because the last will keeping place cannot confirm your living, your encrypted will is sent your family.

  25. Why though the safety confirmation mail seems not to reach?
  26. The safety confirmation was taken automatically by your logging in the last will keeping place or selecting the menu.
    Therefore, the schedule that sends the safety confirmation mail is automatically postponed until the future.

  27. How many family can be registered?
  28. The family can register up to ten people.

  29. When my will sent my family.?
  30. It is time when the last will keeping place cannot confirm your living.
    In a word, it is time when you don't respond to the safety confirmation mail for a certain period.
    You can freely set this period.

    However, the reported will is an encrypted will.

  31. Does the plaintext will leak from the last will keeping place?
  32. First of all, it is not.

    First, the encryption and decoding the will are executed in a browser of your personal computer.
    Therefore, the server of the will keeping place cannot know the will of the plaintext.

    Secondarily, the last will keeping place is exchanged only with you that the user-name and password is correct.
    Therefore, others cannot invade because they try to steal your will.

    Thirdly, the last will keeping place communicates the secret of the password etc. with https.
    Therefore, others cannot tap your secret.

    Fourthly, only the encrypted will is kept in the last will keeping place.
    Therefore, it cannot be decoded that there is no key even if the encrypted will leaks.

    Fifthly, the last will keeping place only sends the family your encrypted will when your safety cannot be confirmed.
    Therefore, others do not know the will of the plaintext therefore.

    Sixthly, the last will keeping place encrypts in addition and keeps encrypted user name, password, will and mail address of you.
    Therefore, it cannot be decoded that there is no key even if the encrypted data leaks.

  33. Should I inform the family of the key to the encryption?
  34. Yes, please inform the family of the key to the encryption.
    The family cannot decode the will if there is no key to the encryption.

  35. Does the will come to light immediately when I informs the family of the key to the encryption?
  36. No, the person who can read the will that logs in this system while you are alive is only you.
    There is no worry to which the will comes to light because your family doesn't know the password to this system logged in.

  37. How to determine the survival of me
  38. The last will keeping place send an e-mail regularly.
    You can freely set the cycle of the safety confirmation mail.
    To touch URL in the email within a given period, that will ensure survival.

  39. Can the safety confirmation mail be transmitted to two mail addresses?
  40. Yes, two mail addresses can be registered.
    First of all, safety is confirmed by the first mail address.
    Safety is also confirmed by the second mail address when safety cannot be confirmed in the first mail address.

  41. What should I do, when it is impossible to respond to the safety confirmation mail by the long trip.?
  42. By the long trip, you change the cycle of the safety confirmation mail for the travel period.

  43. I did not respond to the safety confirmation mail. The will reached the family. Is there a correction method?
  44. In that case, please select the revival by the safety confirmation function.
    Moreover, please examine the change of the content of the will.

  45. How long characters is in encryption key ?
  46. Encryption key (password string) is at least 8 characters long, please specify as possible.
    The maximum length of the encryption key is 32 characters.

  47. Some people ask me the key for encryption of will, What should I do ?
  48. Don't tell the encryption keys except the family.
    The last will keeping place never ask the encryption keys.

  49. What is encryption scheme ?
  50. AES encryption is used.
    The encryption key length is 256bit.

  51. Can I ensure that the last will keeping place get only the encrypted wills.
  52. You can see that in the page source code of web screen.

  53. The encrypted will is only seen in the screen, how to view the plaintext wills?
  54. Please set the encryption key and click "decrypt" button.

  55. Why does URL start from https?
  56. Https encrypts the communication between your web a browser and the last will keeping place by the technology named SSL/TLS.
    Https is used to deliver your secret to the last will keeping place safely in a word.

  57. If someone crack a server, the testament will be leak ?
  58. No, even if contents are seen, noone understand the will because the encrypted will is more encrypted.
    In addition, the user-name, the password and mail address are also encrypted.

  59. I forgot my encryption key, can I decrypt a will ?
  60. No, anyone can not decrypt it.
    To decrypt testament, the encryption key must be required.

  61. How to manage my name and email address and my family's ?
  62. Your and your family's mail address and name are encrypted and kept so as not to leak outside.

    Your and family's mail addresses are used only to manage the will keeping place, and the will keeping place is not used for other usages.

    However, there is a common matter to any system that uses E-mail.
    There is a possibility that a mail server in internet keeps the mail address and the name when E-mail is transmitted.

  63. Does this site lose my encrypted will ?
  64. This is free service, it can not be entrusted.
    However, the server of the last will keeping place uses a general rental server and is operated.
    Therefore, it is thought that the loss accident of data may not occur.
    You should keep the will of former plaintext in preparation for the loss to make sure.

  65. The will or testament saved in this service is legally valid ?
  66. The will or testament at least will not be accepted in the laws of Japan.
    The reason is because you have not proved that the procedure prescribed by law entrusted.

  67. The operation of log in is troublesome.
  68. The will keeping place has used CAPTCHA to defend from the cyber attack before log in.
    Therefore, it will be likely to be felt that it is troublesome.

    As a solution, quick log in LINK is prepared for the user who has registered.
    In quick log in LINK, log in can be done only by the password.

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