📚 Glossary

Organisation and people

Term	Meaning
Organisation Key	The key that protects your organisation's plans. Derived from the owner's Organisation Recovery Key, sealed to SafeKey Mobile, never known to SafeTech.
Organisation Recovery Key	A 16-character key generated in the owner's browser at setup. It is the only way to recover the Organisation Key, and is saved with Inheriti® or manually by the owner.
Team	The unit that receives plan access. Members get access through their teams.
Plan Creator	The member who created a plan. On Data Backup plans always a moderator of it, and on Business Continuity plans the one who manages the Dead Man Switch.
Plan Moderator	A member who approves or denies access requests for a plan.
SafeID	The single sign-on account used across Inheriti® and SafeKey Mobile.

Plans and governance

Term	Meaning
Protection Plan	A container of protected data with its own access rules. Comes as Data Backup or Business Continuity.
Data Backup Plan	A plan for everyday protected, shared access to data.
Business Continuity Plan	A plan that outlives its creator, guarded by a Dead Man Switch.
Moderated	The access type where every request needs moderator approval, with the threshold you set.
Direct access	The access type where authorised members open a plan without moderator approval. Authentication is then mandatory.
Authentication	The governance gate where the requester confirms the access request with one of the plan's methods: SafeKey Mobile on their own phone, or a link sent by email.
Moderation	The approval step: a request needs a set number of moderator approvals.
Dead Man Switch (DMS)	A check on Business Continuity plans: when access is requested, the plan's creator gets the chance to respond. One response stops the access. Runs before authentication and moderation.
Reveal	The moment approved data becomes readable for the requester.

Protocol and keys

Term	Meaning
SSDP+	The patented Secure Share Distribution Protocol behind Inheriti® Business: encrypts data in your browser, splits it into shares and distributes them across separate storage layers.
Share	One encrypted piece of a plan, useless on its own. Comes in two kinds: data shares and key shares.
Data share	A piece of the encrypted data. Stored in the Inheriti® Vault and your optional cloud connectors.
Key share	A piece of a plan's encryption key, also called a validator share. Stored in your organisation's smart contract on InheritiChain.
Custodian share pair	One data share and one key share pulled out of the regular distribution. The key share is claimed to a member's SafeKey device; the data share stays in the custodian depot.
Plan key	The per-plan key that encrypts every share. Stored only as ciphertext: wrapped by the Organisation Key and sealed by the Inheriti® HSM.

Storage

Term	Meaning
Storage Layer	A place where shares are stored: the Inheriti® Vault, InheritiChain, or your own cloud through connectors.
Inheriti® Vault	The SafeTech-run cloud storage layer for encrypted data shares, included in every tier. Also hosts the custodian depot.
InheritiChain	A private, permissioned blockchain run by SafeTech. Your organisation's smart contract stores the key shares that gate every access.
Cloud connectors	Your own Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive as optional extra storage layers, holding additional encrypted shares.
Inheriti® HSM	The managed hardware security module that seals every plan key. It stores no data and cannot open anything on its own.

Apps and account

Term	Meaning
SafeKey Mobile	The phone app that holds your keys and approvals.
SafeKey Pro	The hardware device for offline, cold storage of key shares.
Audit Trail	The record of every request, approval and access in your organisation.
Standby Mode	The frozen state after a subscription ends. Data is kept for 180 days, then permanently deleted.