FILE 05 / DECOY VAULT
One app. Two patterns. Two completely separate vaults.
The Decoy Vault is a second 5×5 pattern that unlocks an entirely separate encrypted album inside App-Vault. Each pattern has its own files. Each pattern has its own catalog. Neither can see the other.
PRIMARY VAULT
DECOY VAULT
On the surface, App-Vault behaves identically whether you enter pattern α or pattern β. The album loads. The thumbnails appear. The settings work. From inside either vault you cannot prove the other exists — and from outside, neither one is visible at all.
This is useful in the genuine privacy situations we ship for. A shared family iPad has both your photos and your child’s drawings; each gets a separate pattern. A spouse occasionally borrows your phone to look something up; the decoy holds the album you are happy to share. A device that travels through customs has a decoy with travel snapshots and a primary with sensitive documents.
We do not market the Decoy Vault as a way to deceive a partner about a relationship or to evade legitimate authority. The use cases on this page are the use cases we describe in our App Store metadata.
RELATED DOSSIERS
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6 ENTRIES
- LINK / 01 · CORE
Calculator Launcher
The home-screen disguise that pairs with two-pattern decoy.
- LINK / 02 · KEY
Pattern Lock
How two patterns produce two mathematically separate keys.
- LINK / 03 · CORE
Photo & File Vault
The primary vault behind the primary pattern.
- LINK / 04 · TRUST
Zero-knowledge architecture
Why neither vault can be detected from the other.
- LINK / 05 · TRUST
Threat model
When two vaults help and when they do not.
- LINK / 06 · COMPARE
App-Vault vs Vaultaire
Decoy versus "Plausible Deniability" — same idea, different names.
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