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# Where the keys live

> The thing that was missing before: a keyring on the device, what it is, what it is not, and the one rule about which key may travel. 8 panels.

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- [Keys](/keys/)

## 1. Where the keys live (cover)
*A key that is written down somewhere is a key that is not lost.*
- Maya, think, thinking
- Eve, shrug, thinking

Note: The brief's diagnosis: with nowhere to keep a key, nobody made a vault.
Source: about/brief/index.md

## 2. Last month's vault
- **Maya** (think, worried): "I made a vault last month. Where did I put the key?"
- prop: vault, ?
- prop: mark, lost = gone

Note: There is no reset. A vault key that is lost is a vault that cannot be written to again.
Source: learn/vaults-and-keys/index.md

## 3. The keyring, on this device
- **Maya** (point, happy): "Every key this site makes, with its kind."
- prop: record, Keys

Note: One JSON document in the browser's storage, a kind on every entry, exportable.
Source: keys/index.html

## 4. Plaintext, on this device
- **Eve** (shrug, happy): "Give me the laptop and I have them."
- prop: padlock, not encrypted at rest

Note: The keyring makes keys findable; it does not protect them from someone with the device.
Source: learn/security/index.md

## 5. Export, to somewhere stronger
- **Maya** (point, determined): "Export. Then a password manager."
- prop: envelope, keys.json
- prop: arrow, to a password manager
- prop: sign, secrets.sgit.ai, soon

Note: Where each kind of key should live, today and later.
Source: learn/vaults-and-keys/index.md

## 6. The rule
- Maya, point, happy
- prop: board, read key:  yes, share it / vault key: never. Not in a link, /            a page, a chat, a repository

Note: The one rule about which key may travel.
Source: learn/vaults-and-keys/index.md

## 7. No reset (evidence)
> There is no reset. A vault whose vault key is lost cannot be written to again
> (learn/vaults-and-keys/index.md)
- Eve, shrug, thinking

Note: Quoted from the vaults and keys page, word for word.
Source: learn/vaults-and-keys/index.md

## 8. A key that is written down somewhere is a key that is not lost. (punchline)
**A key that is written down somewhere is a key that is not lost.**
- Maya, wave, happy
- Eve, shrug, worried

Note: The keyring page says what it is and is not.
Source: keys/index.html