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# Cryptographically enforced disclosure
- URL: https://cje.io/2026/05/01/cryptographically-enforced-disclosure/
- Published: 2026-05-01T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-18T07:49:15.000Z
- Description: A speculative proposal: cryptographically enforced vulnerability disclosure using a drand-triggered dead-man switch to make CVD fallback dates unbreakable.
- Author: Casey Ellis
- Tags: Thinking, Security, Hot Takes

Been playing around with the idea of cryptographically enforced disclosure. You disclose something — there's a CVD timeline and a fallback date. At the fallback, it all goes on the blockchain, with a drand-triggered encryption key as the dead-man switch. No one can say "we're just going to kick the can down the road for 10 years" the way they can right now.

This is going to be a deeply unpopular idea.