What is Oten Drive

Oten Drive (internally Stealth Vault) is an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) file vault for macOS, with an iOS app in final testing. It is built for people who treat attacks, coercion, and device seizure as realistic threats — not edge cases: investigative journalists, legal and security professionals, executives, and privacy-conscious individuals.

What makes it different

• Encrypted on your device. Every file's contents, name, and folder structure is encrypted on your Mac (or iPhone) before it is written to disk or sent over the network. Plaintext exists only in memory, only while a file is open.

• A zero-knowledge cloud. Oten Cloud stores only opaque encrypted blobs plus a little bookkeeping (an ID, a version number, a timestamp). It holds no keys and cannot read your files — even under legal compulsion.

• Shadow Layers. A Vault can hold multiple independent, password-protected layers. Under pressure you can open a harmless decoy layer while your real data stays encrypted, hidden, and cryptographically unprovable. See Shadow Layers.

• Panic. A one-touch emergency action that instantly locks everything, hides the app, and — if you configure it — wipes local caches or drops to a decoy-only state. It works from local state, so it functions even offline.

• A real drive. On macOS your files live in Finder; on iOS they appear in the Files app. Adding, opening, renaming, sharing, and searching feel like ordinary cloud storage — the encryption is invisible until you need it.

How it fits the Oten ecosystem

Oten Drive is part of the Oten security suite. It signs in through Oten Identity (IDP) for cloud sync and workspace features, and it shares the same User Key identity model as Oten Note — so the two products use one identity and one key hierarchy across your devices.

What it is not

• It is not a generic cloud drive that the provider can scan "to improve your experience." It can't.

• It is not a note app (that's Oten Note) or a password manager.

• It does not offer a "forgot password" reset that Oten can perform for you. Recovery is by your keys only — your User Recovery Key and, for each vault, its Vault Recovery Key. See User Key, Recovery & Devices.

Availability: Oten Drive is live on macOS (v1.0.13), shipping in 6 languages with Dark and Light themes. The iOS client is in TestFlight. Windows, Android, and web are not planned for the current roadmap.