ONYX v1.5-beta: Emergency PIN with a full decoy environment
Released v1.5-beta of ONYX, and one of the things we added is Emergency PIN support.
A secondary PIN opens a completely separate decoy environment instead of your real account. You configure what’s in it — chats, avatars, display names — so it looks like a normal, lived-in account. There’s no visual indicator that it’s a decoy.
The use case is straightforward: situations where you’re pressured into unlocking your messenger. The Emergency PIN is kept entirely separate from your main PIN and can be changed at any time.
- GitHub: https://github.com/wardcore-dev/onyx/releases/tag/v1.5-beta
- Website: https://onyx.wardcore.com/
Happy to answer questions.
Machine derived decryption key is basically the same as unencrypted.
Android story is better, but you effectively hold a backdoor. You can push an update that defeats the decryption without any user interaction.
Ideally, decryption should involve the user inputting a pin or password.
Yeah, you’re right. I’ll fix this in the next update.