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What Happens When the Phone Itself Is the Target: Our Full 5-Minute Walkthrough (Video)

Most encrypted messengers stop at the wire. But when someone takes your unlocked phone and runs a forensic extraction, what matters is what the app left behind on the device: contact lists, message caches, media, metadata.

We just published a full 5-minute walkthrough of VEIL built around one design philosophy: comply fully, nothing to extract.

The video covers, with real app screens:

  • All seven powers — decoy access codes, duress wipe, wipe-from-either-side, steganography (encrypted text hidden inside images), hidden-volume vaults, encrypted private notes, and one-tap new identity
  • How data storage compares to the top five messaging apps — what each one leaves readable on the device
  • The post-quantum handshake — ML-KEM-768 hybrid key agreement with a verified device-to-device handshake
  • The verified badge — appears only after the end-to-end handshake completes locally, never as a UI decoration

Every claim on our site is labelled Implemented, Experimental, or Not claimed — no security theater.

Try it: the iOS beta is open to a 1,000-person Founding Member TestFlight cohort at testflight.apple.com/join/MYn1gVjU. Android users can join the waitlist at tryveil.app.

Watch the walkthrough: tryveil.app/landing

Happy to answer questions in the comments.

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