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RE: Securely Storing Data Backups on the STEEM Blockchain
interesting, so you just create a post and add all the GPG data (including body and header)? Do you think there will be a more elegent way to store this one day? Feels like a service to help ppl encrypt and store in to the Steem blockchain without having to create a post would be epic.
How are you inserting the data in to a block?
Yeah, it's all there in the signed message. That message can be decrypted to get the original file back. As for a more elegant way, I don't know. Maybe certain tags (I like "test" may work like this?) could be ignored by most interfaces including STEEM? With that, we'd have concerns about vote abuse though (imagine a whale voting up their own hidden crap every day). There's no fancy data insertion, just the text you see in the post.
Regarding the whales, they can alreayd upvote any of their own crap (ie. Bernie Sanders does this). I think self-voting can be an issue, but this doesn't change that dynamic.
Also, I envision a service that generates a private/public key pair for you (similar to how crypto web wallets work) that will then encrypt your data and submit it to the Steem blockchain as a service.
Can someone grab and hide that shiny object for me? I'm going blind...