A passport scan contains your identity, photograph, and document number. Give that copy a private home instead of leaving it among everyday photos, messages, and email attachments.
Make a readable copy
Capture the identity page clearly, check every edge, and open the image to confirm that its text is readable. Import it into your vault with a useful filename. Once the encrypted copy and a backup are verified, review the original scan in Photos, downloads, recently deleted items, and any automatic photo backups. Importing does not remove those copies.
Prepare before you travel
Keep a copy separate from the physical passport. Before leaving, download the encrypted file and test opening it without a connection on the device you will carry. Save your recovery key elsewhere. A scan can help you locate document details, but it does not replace a valid travel document or guarantee acceptance by an airline or border authority.
Your vault. Your key.
Revault encrypts file contents, names, and previews in your browser before uploading them. The service can still observe account associations, object counts, sizes, and timestamps. Encryption does not make every part of using a cloud service invisible.
Revault’s native iOS and Android apps require no Revault account. Vaults stay on-device unless you enable private iCloud or Google Drive sync, create an encrypted share, or explicitly export them. The web app uses a separate passkey account and cloud. Encrypted backups move vaults between them.
A vault is only one part of a private life. Keep your devices updated, review browser extensions, and lock your screen. A compromised device or malicious frontend can read information while a vault is unlocked.
Vault security & backups
Your recovery key independently unlocks the master key of a vault. It is a secret: anyone who obtains it and the vault’s encrypted key material can attempt to open that vault. Save it as carefully as you would save a valuable physical key.
Keep an encrypted backup outside this browser, and periodically validate a restore. Browser storage can be evicted, and clearing browser data removes cached encrypted files. An installed PWA is a convenient app experience, not a guarantee of permanent storage.