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The Vault - Security Made Easy app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 7776 ratings )
Utilities Productivity
Developer: BestApps BV
Free
Current version: 8.2.2, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 25 May 2011
App size: 47.56 Mb

Do you...
... have trouble remembering tens or hundreds of online passwords?
... write passwords down somewhere, even though you know this is not the safest thing to do?
... use the same ("cleverly" modified) password in multiple places, instead of using properly randomized passwords that offer the best security?
... sometimes wish you had a photo of a creditcard, passport or other document handy?
... want to securely store lots of other confidential information, photos, animated GIFs, office documents, you name it?
... want all this to be secure, but still very simple to use?

Then ◆The Vault◆ is for you!

The Vault provides straightforward, easy to use, secure storage for all your documents and other data, such as passwords, login credentials and any other confidential information. It can securely store any number of documents, images, screenshots or photos along with your confidential information.

* 256-bit AES encryption *
While storage and access is simple, The Vault uses rock-solid, industry standard encryption.
[technical details below]


◆ ◆ ◆ WHY IS IT BETTER ? ◆ ◆ ◆

▸ See all features: bit.ly/TheVault-Features

▸ The Vault is very simple to use, yet it employs industry-standard encryption to keep your data safe.
(Some other - payed - apps do too, but some apps advertised as "secure" really do not, and for example save your data using a simple base-64 encoding: your information looks scrambled, but is as readable as plain text when you know how).

▸ The Vault will - never - show ad banners! We hate them too.

▸ The Vault stores information on * your * device. Not on some server somewhere on the net.

▸ Securely storing information is as simple as entering free text!

▸ The Vault can securely store photos and pictures from your camera or photo library; for example a copy of your passport, credit card, or just the serial numbers of some equipment you own. Anything.

▸ The Vault can securely store - and play - animated GIFs.

▸ The Vault can securely store *any* office or other document.

▸ Many secured documents can be viewed directly from The Vault, including PDFs, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Powerpoint, Excel and Word files.

▸ You can optionally import data exported from your previous password app (or any other source that can provide the data).

▸ Automatically and securely backups your data!


◆ ◆ ◆ TECHNICAL DETAILS ◆ ◆ ◆

This is the part that matters.
This is the part that is hard to get right.
This is the part that makes the difference between actual security and insecurity.

Claiming “military-grade” (or “industry standard” ;-) encryption is meaningless.
Even claiming “256-bit AES encryption”, in itself is not very meaningful.

Example:
Claiming “military-grade” encryption and subsequently simply hashing a master passcode - e.g. using SHA, MD5, or, god forbid, nothing at all (!) - is NOT good.
What ís good is to use a proper key derivation algorithm such as PBKDF2, scrypt or bcrypt.

Another example:
AES is better than ancient algorithms such as Blowfish, Twofish or 3DES.
But even for AES: an app that does not combine encryption with authentication... is doing it wrong. Currently there is some consensus that the best construct is to first encrypt a message and then calculate a message-authentication code, instead of the other way around.

These things matter.

◆ ◆ ◆
The Vault uses PBKDF2 key derivation with an HMAC-SHA512 PRF, and HMAC-SHA256 Encrypt-then-MAC authenticated 256-bit AES encryption, using CommonCrypto functionality only. All cipher and MAC worker keys, as well as all salts and IVs, are purely random data. Keys and IVs are never reused. Each singular piece of data is encrypted with a unique random encryption key, and authenticated with a unique random HMAC key.
Your Master Passcode is never stored; and neither are the derived cipher keys.
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THE ONLY THING ●YOU● HAVE TO DO?
Choose a long master passcode. Make it long, and make it random!
Read more about why and how inside the app.

Pros and cons of The Vault - Security Made Easy app for iPhone and iPad

The Vault - Security Made Easy app good for

Hello, i prefer the gray one but if they do not have real good opinion, try a third one please, this one, not the better. Good work ! Thank you :-) Take care Martial
Ive just synced my devices (iPads and iPhones, all for no extra charge!!), now its all safe and perfect; Im not quite sure what Im going to use the "export" feature for, but I bought it just in case, for such a price you might as well get the whole package; works great and customer support is excellent, I had an answer with the solution within an hour.. great job
Thanks for information published on Tweeter and that i didnt find initially in the Help section. Password length is no more limited to 5 chararacters. Its possible now to modify the background photo. So i modify my wrong initial evaluation to 5* !
Up to my opinion and i tried out 5 other apps in that field of secure password storage. Most of them are not the money worth and full of bugs. But this one here is simple with a clear structure and easy to use and a graphical interface without all that decoration and it is free of charge for the basic version and everything works as promised. So i decided to pay for the backup/restore option. Works fine with dropbox but crashes when i tried to transfer the Backup to a MAC or ipad with the WiFi part. Five stars when fixed and sync over Apples iCloud is in.
I got fast and accurate response to my questions. Great!! The Vault securely keeps large pdf-documents on your iPhone with fast (!) encryption. Now I am traveling relaxed.
4.4.1 lost the direct alpha keyboard input on my iPhone. The response of the support team was very quick and helpful and offered an alternative solution: shake the phone to change the keyboard. Thank you!

Some bad moments

Love the app, it works well, BUT, when I just applied the update, it now stops me from logging in
Saying to backup after update not very effective. Lost everything after IOS5 update, no sync with other device! Switched to Keeper.
I cant log on the app, heaven if I try to log on the app, I have a stack message...
i had the problem with 2.0.4 and now again with 2.0.5 nothing is fixed now i get the error "No CoreData Stack" i need my info. any update on this?
If you want to save a document, you need to purchase another app. This free app offer just plain text data.
Since 2.05 it crashes as soon as it starts. 2.06 made no difference. I cant get to my data, and I was relying on this app to keep it secure. Now its secure from me.

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