backup.rst

Autocrypt Secret Key Backup

This is for Autocrypt Level 1 or later...

The MUA generates a strong "backup code" and gets the user to write it down somewhere. Then it serializes its secret key material into a message encrypted by the the backup code. This message is given a custom header and is sent to the account in question:

Autocrypt-Secret-Key-Backup: key_backup_data=<encrypted_secret_key>
From: alice@example.net
To: alice@example.net

.. todo::

   should the MUA store the message in the SMA, or store it to file or
   what?

Restore

.. todo::

   Fill in here

Prompting the user for backup code?

Note also that the backup code MUST be strong -- it is subject to brute force attacks by anyone who holds a copy.

Backup and Sync

.. todo::

   say something about the relationship between backup and sync