Ares Intel: Cipher Vault

Ares Intel: Cipher Vault includes eleven ways to hide a message, from Caesar to authenticated AES-256, and every one of them says plainly whether it protects anything. Nothing leaves your iPhone unless you send it: the app has no networking code and requests no network permission, so it cannot transmit anything by itself. Turn on Airplane Mode and every feature still works, because none of them ever needed a connection. EVERY METHOD TELLS YOU THE TRUTH Most cipher apps present Caesar and AES side by side as though they were alternatives. They are not. One is a puzzle from the first century BC that a computer breaks instantly, and the other protects state secrets. Cipher Vault labels each of its eleven methods with what it actually is. The historical ciphers carry a badge reading "Historical: not secure". Base64 carries "Encoding only: not secure", because encoding is not encryption no…