Help — Recovery
Recovery without Drive A
How to reach your storage if Drive A is lost, destroyed, or unavailable. What is recoverable, and what is not.
Understand this before you need it
Recovery in FGSP depends entirely on you holding your Shape Key and Coordinate — either in memory, written down securely, or backed up in a trusted location. There is no operator-side recovery. No support ticket restores access. Read the best practices guide on key storage before you rely on this system for anything critical.
What "recovery" means in FGSP
FGSP has no accounts. There is nothing to "recover" in the traditional sense. What you are doing when you "recover" is recomputing your access from your two keys. If you have your Shape Key and Coordinate, you have everything you need. If you don't, access cannot be reconstructed by anyone.
Recovery path — step by step
Download the Navigator app from the public site
Go to fgsp.io (or the .onion mirror) and download the Navigator binary. No authentication required. No validation ping to any server. The same binary is available to everyone — signed by the operator's release key so you can verify it's legitimate. Do this from a clean device if possible.
Open the Navigator and select manual entry
Launch the Navigator. Choose Path 1 (manual entry). Do not look for a "login" option — there is no login. This is the manual credential entry path.
Type your Coordinate and Shape Key
Enter your Coordinate and Shape Key. These never leave your device. The Navigator uses them locally to derive your session credentials, locate your storage bulb on Tor, and authenticate. Nothing is sent to any server in cleartext.
The Navigator recomputes everything and connects
The Navigator computes your bulb's .onion address from your keys, establishes a Tor connection with the correct client authorization, and connects to your storage. This is the same path taken every time — Drive A just automates this step so you don't type the keys manually.
Provision a fresh Drive A (recommended)
Once you're back in, provision a new Drive A immediately. Don't operate on the manual path long-term — a drive bundle is much safer for regular use. Store it in a secure location separate from your device.
What you need — and what you don't
What you need for recovery
Your Shape Key and Coordinate. That's it. These two values are sufficient to reconstruct every access credential in the system. No other physical dependency. No backup codes. No operator involvement.
What cannot help you if you've lost both keys
Nothing. The operator cannot recover access. FGSP support cannot recover access. There is no backdoor, no master key, no emergency override. If both keys are gone with no backup, the data is inaccessible permanently.
If you've lost only Drive A (keys intact)
Use the manual entry path above. Drive A is a convenience bundle — losing it does not mean losing access, as long as you know your keys. Provision a fresh Drive A after reconnecting.
If you've lost your Coordinate but remember your Shape Key
Access cannot be reconstructed without both keys. Neither key alone is sufficient. If you've lost one, recovery is not possible. This is why the best practices guide recommends storing both keys together in a secure, redundant location.
If your Tor v3 client-auth key is also missing
The client-auth key is derived live from your Shape Key and Coordinate every session. It is not stored anywhere. If you have your two keys, you automatically have the client-auth key — the Navigator recomputes it on connection. You do not need to store it separately.