Systems and methods for password recovery within an untrusted environment

A system for password recovery within an untrusted environment, the system comprising:

• at least one physical processor;
• and
• physical memory comprising computer-executable instructions and one or more modules that, when executed by the physical processor, cause the physical processor to:
• deconstruct, by a key module, an encryption key associated with accessing a password for a target user into a plurality of key components;
• distribute, by a distribution module, the key components to a plurality of password vaults corresponding to a random subset of users that the key components are associated with a password manager service and that the password manager service are unrelated to the target user;
• authenticate, by an authentication module, recovery signal data associated with a request to recover the target user password;
• publish, by a recovery module and in response to the authenticating, password recovery data to a recovery signal ledger in response to the request to recover the target user password, wherein the recovery signal ledger corresponds to a distributed ledger configured for a consensus determination of an authenticated recovery request;
• and
• perform, by a security module, a security action that utilizes the password recovery data in the recovery signal ledger to send the key components from the random subset of users to the target user for reconstructing the encryption key in response to the authenticated recovery request by performing the consensus determination.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to:

• deconstruct an encryption key associated with accessing a password for a target user into a plurality of key components;
• distribute the key components to a plurality of password vaults corresponding to a random subset of users that the key components are associated with a password manager service and that the password manager service are unrelated to the target user;
• authenticate recovery signal data associated with a request to recover the target user password;
• publish, in response to the authenticating, password recovery data to a recovery signal ledger in response to the request to recover the target user password, wherein the recovery signal ledger corresponds to a distributed ledger configured for a consensus determination of an authenticated recovery request;
• and
• perform a security action that utilizes the password recovery data in the recovery signal ledger to send the key components from the random subset of users to the target user for reconstructing the encryption key in response to the authenticated recovery request by performing the consensus determination.