macOS
macOS 13 Ventura or laterOne encrypted disk image, mounted while you work and unmounted the moment you lock.
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The vault is a single AES-256 sparsebundle at
~/Library/Application Support/Custodia/vault.sparsebundle. It grows as you fill it, up to a 2 TB ceiling. -
Unlocked, it mounts at
/Volumes/CustodiaVaultand stays out of the Finder sidebar. Locked, the only thing on disk is the opaque blob. -
Your password reaches
hdiutilover standard input — never as a command argument, where any other process could read it, and never written to disk. - The vault directory is excluded from Time Machine, so a backup can't quietly carry a second copy somewhere else.