Very often people find themselves wanting to store secrets in a way that either they can recover even if (for instance) their house burns down, or allow friends and family to recover if they pass away. Existing solutions to this problem are:

• Too complicated to use for ordinary people.
• They have limitations or annoyances when attempting to use them in practical scenarios.

Hence the proposal for https://github.com/cyphar/paperback/ is to be a simpler solution to the above problems.