Disk Decipher 4+
Richard Huveneers
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- $0.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Disk Decipher allows access to your encrypted virtual disks. Do you have your passwords or other sensitive information stored in a TrueCrypt container or FreeOTFE or LUKS volume? Disk Decipher will allow you to access that information from your Mac.
Disk Decipher currently supports:
- Manage multiple disks
- Storage provider: remote (Disk Decipher will download only the necessary parts of the disk image, allowing access to disk images of arbitrary size. More details are available on the support website)
- Remote storage providers: HTTP/HTTPS (WEBDAV), Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and OneDrive for Business, Box
- Storage provider: linked (Disk Decipher will access any container on your Mac. More details are available on the support website)
- Disk image format: TrueCrypt (header version 4 and 5, created by TrueCrypt 6.0 or later)
• Operating mode: XTS
• Ciphers: AES-256, Serpent, Twofish
• Cascade ciphers: AES-Twofish, AES-Twofish-Serpent, Serpent-AES, Serpent-Twofish-AES, Twofish-Serpent
• Hash functions: RIPEMD160, SHA-512, Whirlpool
• Hidden volumes supported
• Keyfiles supported
- Disk image format: FreeOTFE (version 3 and 4)
• Operating modes: XTS, CBC
• Ciphers: AES-256, Serpent, Twofish, Blowfish-448
• Hash functions: RIPEMD160, SHA-512, Whirlpool
- Disk image format: LUKS (version 1 and 2)
• Operating modes: XTS
• Ciphers: AES-256, Serpent, Twofish
• Hash functions: SHA1, SHA-256, SHA-512, RIPEMD160
- Disk image format: VeraCrypt (header version 5, created by VeraCrypt 1.0)
• Operating mode: XTS
• Ciphers: AES-256, Serpent, Twofish
• Cascade ciphers: AES-Twofish, AES-Twofish-Serpent, Serpent-AES, Serpent-Twofish-AES, Twofish-Serpent
• Hash functions: RIPEMD160, SHA-512, Whirlpool, SHA-256
• Hidden volumes supported
• Keyfiles supported
- Disk image format: encrypted DMG (Apple Disk Image, version 2)
• Ciphers: AES-128, AES-256
• Password protected
- Filesystems: FAT (FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32), exFAT (in-app purchase), HFS+ and HFSX, NTFS (NTFS compression and encryption are not supported), APFS (APFS encryption is not supported)
- File viewer supports many document types (PDF, RTF, plain-text, images, etc.)
- File viewer supports streaming audio playback (MP3, WAV, etc.)
- File viewer supports streaming movie playback (MP4, MOV, etc.)
- File viewer supports printing of all supported document types
- File viewer supports saving images to Photos library
- File viewer supports built-in editing of plain-text files
- File viewer supports swiping to next/previous file
- Open In Application menu to transfer decrypted files to other applications
- Passcode protection
- Write support (details are available on the support website)
- Photo camera to store new photos securely in your encrypted container
- Import files
- Import photos and videos from Photos
- iCloud support
- Tiled directory view (presents files as tiles, a small preview will be shown for image and PDF files to simplify browsing)
- dragging files from other apps and dropping into mounted encrypted container
- optionally save disk passwords in macOS keychain
- GUID Partition Table
Let me know if you need additional functionality (other disk format, other ciphers, keyfile, cloud storage, writable disk, ...).
What’s New
Version 3.5.2
- GUID Partition Table support: Disk Decipher now recognises a partition table (GPT) at the start of the (decrypted) disk and mount the first partition with a known filesystem.
This increases compatibility with the default settings of macOS Disk Utility when creating a DMG container.
If you were enable to mount a DMG container with previous versions of Disk Decipher, do try it again and report any issues.
- Replaced all references to the support site with the new shorter URL: https://disk-decipher.app
- The mount view could disappear if the saved password is protected and some other conditions held. This has been fixed.
- Fix passcode lock issue
Ratings and Reviews
Can be better
It works just fine but I would like to see the ability to use a key file in addition to the password.
Developer Response ,
Keyfiles are supported: https://disk-decipher.app/keyfiles/
File support fixed! But...
I’m updating my review for two reasons. #1 is that file support was added, and I can now easily import a LUKS container from iCloud or Nextcloud/ownCloud/etc.. However, I was disappointed to discover, after importing my containers, that they failed to mount. After reading on the website I conclude that there is no support for ext4 formatted containers. Having a journaled FS in my container has saved me from file corruptions on several occasions. On my computers I run fsck on the decrypted volume every time I mount the container, and it’s not uncommon for it to find problems and fix them. You might wan’t to consider added a step like that as well. Not that I’m an expert on any of this, though. At the least, could you please add support for common open-source filesystems, such as ext4? I’ve been patiently waiting and watching as this app evolves, and I was sure it would where I needed it to be for my use-case in this last update... I’d be so grateful if you could make it compatible with containers that house an ext4 filesystems! P.s. I tried to find an email on your website but didn’t see one, the feature request form did not have a place to write in a feature either, only select one of those in the list. Thanks!
Alright app
App works fine, but does not have many features. You are unable to create crypts (you must create with 3rd party then import. I used VeraCrypt and sent the file through Google Drive), you are unable to delete directories (folders), you cannot move files around, you cannot search for items (no search bar/function), and you cannot choose how items are sorted (date/alphabetical/size/etc). The app feels a bit restrictive, but it does its job. I’d recommend this app as more of a crypt viewer than a crypt editor.
On the plus side, this app’s privacy policy is great, it supports many file types, and it is very secure (the second you close the app it dismounts the drive).
Of the two apps for file decryption on the AppStore right now, I would recommend this app. While this app is missing a lot of features, it has a much better privacy policy than the other, and this app does not (to my knowledge) have ties to the Chinese government like the other one.
Overall, missing features, but secure. 4/5.
Developer Response ,
Good feedback, thanks. I will add these items to the feature request page (https://disk-decipher.app/feature-requests/) to allow everybody to vote on them.
The focus of the 3.x release is the iOS File Provider which will allow you to do exactly these operations once write support is implemented in the iOS File Provider. This is definitely on my todo list for this year.
App Privacy
The developer, Richard Huveneers, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
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Information
- Seller
- Richard Huveneers
- Size
- 1.8 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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macOS 10.15 or later. Requires iOS 11.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020-2021 Richard Huveneers
- Price
- $0.99
- In-App Purchases
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- exFAT filesystem support $2.99
- Large Donation $3.99
- Medium Donation $1.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.