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MAINNET BETA. Unaudited · relaxed k=4 regime (trivially forgeable) · k=8 hardening reverted, re-activating with a difficulty fix · very few nodes, 51%-attackable · not a security · for evaluation — not to protect real secrets yet. Full disclaimer →

The Postern Store — presented honestly

The catalog, with its labels on.

Every entry below carries an honest status badge. Built means the Rust core compiles and its tests pass. Reference prototype means a working front-end that demonstrates the design. Design / spec means a documented plan, not running software. And everything — no exceptions — is unaudited.

core: built · tests pass reference prototype design / spec unaudited

The cores

Product cores — built, test-verified, unaudited.

The verified Rust foundations (crates/postern-*). All of them seal with one canonical primitive set: an XChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD seal and an Argon2id KDF, so one core to audit protects everything.

Postern Wallet

Post-quantum hybrid wallet (Falcon‖ML-DSA), diversified addresses, on-device key vault. Talks to the ownerless protocol via public RPC — now the unaudited mainnet beta (nascent, 51%-attackable), so the coins it holds carry no value claim and are not for investment.

core: built · tests pass reference prototype unaudited

Postern Vault

A secrets / password vault, sealed at rest. Reuses the wallet's key-wrapping design (StrongBox / Secure Enclave class) — highest infrastructure reuse in the portfolio.

core: built · tests pass unaudited

Postern Courier

Serverless person-to-person file drop: the payload is sealed with ML-KEM-1024 (FIPS-203) and delivered over an ephemeral Tor onion service. No server ever holds your file.

core: built · tests pass unaudited

Postern Messenger

The end-to-end-encryption core: Megolm group encryption via vodozemac (the Matrix project's Rust Olm/Megolm, Apache-2.0, audited by Least Authority in 2022 — that audit covers vodozemac, not this product).

core: built · tests pass unaudited

Postern Seal Companion

The user-facing attestation verifier: self-audit and peer-verify. Turns the Seal from invisible infrastructure into something you can see and use — verify Postern's claims instead of trusting them.

core: built · tests pass unaudited

Panic Lock

A panic button that instantly re-locks: one call seals the vault. It destroys nothing — an ethics decision, not a limitation.

core: built · tests pass unaudited

Postern Keys

A passkey / FIDO2 credential core. Identity is the biggest unfilled gap in the permissive-license daily-driver — this is the Apache-side answer.

core: built · tests pass unaudited

Postern Hygiene

Document metadata scrubbing for OOXML, ODF, and JPEG — the author fields, revision trails, and EXIF that leak when nothing else does.

core: built · tests pass unaudited

Under the hood

Shared plumbing you don't install separately: Postern Core (the one canonical seal), Postern Quarantine (inbound-document safety — the mirror of Hygiene), Postern Tor (in-process Tor via Arti), Postern Telephony (carrier SMS/calls surface for Postern OS Mobile), and the Postern SDK (one UniFFI surface over the whole suite for Android / iOS / desktop). All built and test-verified; all unaudited.

The apps

Reference front-ends — self-contained, honest by construction.

Each app is a single self-contained HTML file. Where an AI concierge is offered, you bring your own Claude key — nothing is proxied through us. Every app carries an honest privacy panel, and none of them claims “100% private”.

Sotto

A quiet, privacy-first voice assistant.

reference prototype unaudited

Vedetta

A quiet lookout on the markets — voice-driven; your holdings never leave the device.

reference prototype unaudited

Tolmach

A private interpreter and meeting-minutes taker.

reference prototype unaudited

Postern Store

Say what you need; it parameterizes the search across the catalog.

reference prototype unaudited

Chiave

Sign in with your wallet — no email, no account.

reference prototype unaudited

Sarto

The onboarding configurator — set up your Postern, including transparent (never covert) parental and corporate controls.

reference prototype unaudited

Consiglio

The enterprise admin console: Chinese-Wall separation, dual-control escrow, LGPD/GDPR/CCPA-enabling controls.

reference prototype unaudited

See them in action

Short demos — the real apps, labelled for what they are.

Each clip is the actual app running, narrated and subtitled. All are pre-release beta and unaudited. Where an app offers an AI concierge, you bring your own Claude key and that cloud path is honestly the less-private one — nothing is proxied through us (except the clearly-labelled Tolmach subscription tier). Nothing shown is a security claim.

Sotto — privacy-first voice assistant (bring-your-own key)
Vedetta — voice markets lookout; research only, holdings stay on-device
Tolmach — private interpreter + meeting minutes
Tolmach — subscription tier — honest: a less-private proxy vs bring-your-own-key
Postern Store — natural-language catalog search (local, no tracking)
Chiave — sign in with your wallet; no email, no account
Sarto — onboarding + transparent (never covert) controls
Consiglio — enterprise console (Chinese Wall, dual-control escrow) · not legal advice

OS & platform

The bigger surfaces — labelled built vs designed.

SurfaceWhat it isHonest status
Postern OS (node appliance)A reproducible NixOS image that boots straight into a running node — same inputs, same image. Nix profiles in os/.profiles: built image: build from source unaudited
Postern OS — Desktop & MobileThe daily-driver privacy OS: reproducible, hardened, attestable. Foundations exist as NixOS / Mobile-NixOS profiles; the full daily-driver is to build.design / spec unaudited
Postern DesktopA Tauri desktop app for your existing OS: node companion, wallet, miner view, live logs.backend: built build from source unaudited
Postern Container (Android)A hardened, attestable privacy workspace on the phone you already own — the planned entry product.design / spec
Cloud editionConfidential-VM deployment (SEV-SNP / TDX) — spec in docs/specs/.design / spec
Enterprise editionIdentity & governance model (wallet-as-login, org controls); Consiglio is its console prototype.design / spec reference prototype

Licensing, suite-wide: MIT / Apache-2.0 per crate, no GPL/AGPL embedded anywhere in the products. Ready to try something? Head to downloads — and read the disclaimer first.