Tempern

Identity, tempered.

A personal vault for the things that prove who you are — passwords, passkeys, SSH and API keys, cards, documents. Encrypted on your own machine. Nobody else can read it, including us.


Zero knowledge

The server only ever sees ciphertext

Records are encrypted before they leave your Mac. Sync storage holds opaque blobs, record ids and timestamps — never a title, a username or a password.

Recipient key slots

Losing a laptop doesn't expire your recovery kit

Each way in owns a durable keypair, and the vault key is wrapped to each one. Revoking a stolen device needs only the public keys of the rest. The paper kit is printed once.

Signed membership

A storage provider cannot add itself

Who may open the vault is published in an Ed25519-signed, hash-chained manifest. Adding a recipient or rolling back a generation is detected by every client.

Tempering

Named for the process, not the promise

Tempering is the heat treatment that makes steel hard and tough rather than merely hard. The mark shows the colours a smith reads off the surface to judge it.

Status: in development, and honest about it. Tempern has had no external security review, and sync is new. It is not yet a replacement for your password manager — keep the one you have as the authoritative copy. There is nothing to download here yet.