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SimpleumSafe 3.5 iOS - Release Notes

09-16-2024

For the latest version of SimpleumSafe, we are pleased to announce significant improvements and helpful new features aimed at making your experience with our app even safer, more efficient and easier to use. Below is a detailed overview of recent updates:

What’s new in SimpleumSafe for iOS

• New app icons: We’ve updated the look of SimpleumSafe and now offer you the choice between new dark and colored icons.
• Improved password security: To protect your data even better, we’ve further strengthened the security mechanisms when opening the safe. By increasing it to 1,000,000 PBKDF2 rounds, cracking your password is made much more difficult, even if it means that opening the safe now takes a little longer.
• Advanced preview features: We’ve improved the preview experience. You can now easily navigate between images and documents in the preview view by swiping. A simple tap is enough to expand the view to full screen mode and get an even better view of your content.

• Increased security through keyboard lock: To minimize the risk of attacks from insecure third-party soft keyboards, we have disabled the use of such keyboards in SimpleumSafe. This protects your input and ensures that your data always remains safe.

• More user-friendly navigation: We have revised the navigation structure of the app to make it even more intuitive to use. The “Start” screen has been renamed “Home”, while “Home” is now called “Files”. These changes are intended to make it easier to find your way around the app.

• Individual folder view: In the settings you can now choose whether you want to view all folders first and then the files. This function offers you a more flexible and tidy view of your stored data.

• Markdown support: You can now not only view Markdown files, but also edit them directly in SimpleumSafe. This is particularly useful for anyone who saves notes or documentation in Markdown.

  

• Display of image metadata: In the preview view, detailed image metadata such as the exposure time is now displayed directly. This gives you important information about your photos at a glance.

  

• New import dialog: Importing images and videos from the Photos app has been completely redesigned and simplified. This new dialog makes adding media even more user-friendly and faster.

  

• Various bug fixes and optimizations: As always, we have also worked on the finer details and fixed numerous small bugs and made optimizations to further improve the overall performance and stability of the app.

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SimpleumSafe 3.5 Mac - Release Notes

09-16-2024

For the latest version of SimpleumSafe, we are pleased to announce significant improvements and helpful new features aimed at making your experience with our app even safer, more efficient and easier to use. Below is a detailed overview of recent updates:

What’s new in SimpleumSafe 3.5 for Mac

• Improved password security: We’ve also significantly increased password security on Mac by increasing the number of PBKDF2 rounds to 1,000,000. This provides even better protection for your sensitive data, even if it means opening the safe takes a little longer.

• Advanced preview features: Preview has also been improved on Mac. You can now swipe between images and documents to browse them faster.

• Markdown support: You can now view Markdown files directly in SimpleumSafe.

  

• Display of image metadata: We’ve also expanded the preview to display important image metadata. This way you can see the most important information about your photos directly without having to open an additional app.

  

• New import dialog for photos and videos: Importing media from the Photos app as of macOS 13 has been simplified and improved. This means you can save your images and videos in SimpleumSafe even faster and more easily.

  

• Bug fixes and optimizations: We have also fixed numerous minor bugs and made optimizations for the Mac version to further improve your experience with the app.

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Use SimpleumSafe encryption as a Boxcryptor alternative

Boxcryptor has been sold to Dropbox and is no longer accepting new customers. Existing customers are looking for alternatives.

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SimpleumSafe is a suitable alternative / replacement to Boxcryptor

In a world where cyber threats are becoming increasingly prevalent, the need to protect our sensitive information has never been more important. One popular solution for securing files and documents in the cloud was Boxcryptor, an encryption software that allows users to encrypt their data before uploading it to the cloud.

Boxcryptor was bought by Dropbox and is not longer available.

SimpleumSafe is an encryption and document management solution for macOS and iOS and is suitable for both private and business use.

SimpleumSafe works like a complete safe: a safe place for any type of file to be protected on a Mac or iPhone. An extra dose of security is guaranteed by the continuous encryption: even when the files are viewed and edited, they are encrypted throughout. SimpleumSafe takes a different path than most other encryption programs. Once authorized with a password, the files in the file system will not be provided. Otherwise, they would be completely vulnerable from that moment on. SimpleumSafe recreates its own file system and has its own finder. As a result, the files remain encrypted for all time.

Cloud service end-to-end encryption

SimpleumSafe allows the Safes to be synchronized between different devices (Mac, iPad, iPhone) using end-to-end data encryption. There are currently three types of synchronization: iCloud, wireless (no Internet), or with a common folder (Mac to Mac only). All your sensitive data are encrypted locally on your disc and on the cloud storage.

Even if the synchronization data was stolen from the cloud and the password became public, the data still cannot be decrypted. 

In addition to the password, the key file is also needed to decrypt a Safe. However, the key file is not transmitted directly from the cloud, but manually.

Synchronization and data protection of your cloud storage

SimpleumSafe has its own technology for the sync of encrypted data and does not require special servers. For this purpose, a synchronization directory is created in which the safe records all information about changes to the safe (add, change, delete) and then on another device, these recordings are re-played. All file information stored in the safe is encrypted at all times during synchronization.

The key itself used for encryption and decryption is not synchronized. Therefore, even if the synchronization data from the cloud were stolen, it would be unusable, even in the case where the password is known.

It is the best Boxcryptor alternative for client-side file encryption, zero-knowledge encrypted cloud and secure local file handling with its own Explorer / Finder. You can create several vaults / Safes to organize your data.

The synchronization takes place in two steps. First, the metadata is synchronized. These are e.g. file name, size, creation and modification date, ….

This means that if a large amount of data is being synchronized or the connection is slow, it may already be possible to see these file names and folders on another device, but the actual data has not yet been transferred. (This concerns in particular the today used iCloud synchronization, on whose transmission SimpleumSafe has no direct influence). In this case, the file names are still gray. In a second step, the file contents are synchronized and the file names are then black again.

Reasons for SimpleumSafe (especially for Boxcryptor users)

Switch from Boxcryptor to SimpleumSafe

It’s a good idea to create a small Safe to get to know and familiarize yourself with this Safe with SimpleumSafe. Since you can create as many Safes as you like, this has no effect on the data taken over by Boxcryptor.

Create a safe for the Boxcryptor data

It is recommended to perform the data transfer on a Mac

1. Create a Safe
2. Open the created Safe in SimpleumSafe
3. Open you encrypted folders within Boxcryptor
4. Import the files into SimpleumSafe. For example, by dragging (importing) the file or folders into SimpleumSafe
5. Done

Additional Information

• SimpleumSafe exists only for macOS and iOS, not for Windows
• Frequently asked Questions

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