SafeCloset – keep your secrets in password protected files

SafeCloset keeps your secrets in password protected files. SafeCloset is designed to be convenient and avoid common weaknesses like external editing or temporary files written on disk.

A closet is stored in a file that you can backup, keep with you on an USB key, etc. A closet contains drawers, each one is found and open with its own password. A drawer contains a list of (key, value). Values are texts in which you can store a code, a password, comments, a poem, some data, etc. A drawer can also contain deeper crypted drawers.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• The closet contains several drawers, some of them automatically created with an unknown password so that nobody can determine which drawers you’re able to open, or even how many.
• Each drawer is separately crypted with AES-GCM-SIV, with a random one-use nonce and the password/key of your choice. This gives an inherently long to test decrypt algorithm (but you should still use long passphrases for your drawers).
• You can have one or several drawers with real content. You can be forced to open a drawer and still keep other drawers secret without any trace, either at the top level or deeper in the drawer you opened.
• When you open a drawer, with its password, you can read it, search it, edit it, close it.
• In an open drawer you can create new drawers, or open deeper drawers if you know their password.
• Automatically quits on inactivity.
• The size of the drawer’s content isn’t observable.
• No clear file is ever created, edition is done directly in the TUI (external editors are usually the weakest point).
• No clear data is ever given to any external library, widget, etc.
• All data is viewed and edited in the TUI application.
• You can compile SafeCloset yourself. Its code is small and auditable.
• The format of the closet file is described so that another application could be written to decode your closet files in the future (assuming you have the password).
• SafeCloset can’t be queried by other applications, like browsers. This is a feature.
• You may have all your secrets in one file easy to keep with you and backup.
• No company can die and lose your secrets: you keep everything, with as many copies as necessary, where you want.
• No company can be forced to add some secret stealing code: SafeCloset is small, open-source and replaceable.
• Fast and convenient to use.
• Cross-platform support.
• “I’m being watched” mode in which unselected values are hidden. This mode is kept per drawer, always activated when you launch SafeCloset with the --hide option, and toggled with ctrl-h.

Website: github.com/Canop/safecloset
Support:
Developer: Denys Séguret
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

SafeCloset is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials

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