Preserve originals, verify their integrity, back up and restore.
About
The life cycle of files, from intake to restore.
Obscura Vault manages the physical life cycle of files: bringing them in, storing them in .obf archives, proving they are intact, backing them up, and restoring them.
Ecosystem
Two apps, two distinct roles.
Obscura Vault and Obscura Catalog both derive from Obscura Flow. Vault takes care of files and does not describe images: cataloging is Obscura Catalog's role. The two products share neither data nor product code. Since 1.3.0, Vault receives the packages Obscura Catalog writes to hand it a library: a plain folder, described by a written contract.
Two distinct products
Organize, describe, enrich metadata, and find images again.
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What guides Obscura Vault.
Public formats and algorithms, and results that state exactly what was verified.
Open formats
An .obf archive is built on tar and zstd, two open, publicly documented formats.
SHA-256 checksums
A standardized hash function (FIPS 180-4): the slightest change to a file changes its checksum.
Honest results
A check that could not take place stays “not verifiable”. It never counts as “verified good”.
Ed25519 signature
A standardized digital signature (RFC 8032) comes with every archive.
Optional encryption
AES-GCM encrypts an archive's content and detects any change to it; you choose whether to turn it on.
On your Mac
A macOS app from the Obscura Flow ecosystem.
Publisher
Software by Oorun.
Obscura Vault is proprietary software by Oorun, distributed under an end user license agreement.
Oorun, 108B rue de Montreuil, 94300 Vincennes, France. SIREN 524 709 441. Details are in the legal notice.
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Preserved originals, verified integrity.
Obscura Vault is available for macOS. Download it from your Obscura member area, or write to us to learn more.