> This is not an option for the vast majority of people
A bank SD box costs $50/year. Why is this not an option for a majority of people? If anything, it's more accessible to use a bank SD box than being a technical enough person to run code from a GitHub repo.
> But While we are at it, if the government wants to confiscate your bank locker they totally can and have access to all your secrets. So then what do you suggest?
The bank SD box isn't full proof (as any bank employee could take a peek), which is why you'd want to shard the secret into multiple SD boxes. I.e. if your secret is ABC, you could store three secrets of AC + AB + BC, wherein you need only 2/3 to recover the entire secret. This scheme is effectively the same as Shamir Secret Sharing, but way easier to recover.
If your threat level is that the government might confiscate your bank locker, then you're probably at the level that you'd want geo-distributed sharded secrets in privacy-centric countries like Switzerland.
