Question 1

What is Dark Transport?

Accepted Answer

Dark Transport is a transport-layer service for secrets — a REST API and PWA that ships credit cards, recovery codes, SSNs, API keys, and other one-time secrets over any channel (iMessage, SMS, Slack, email, WhatsApp, Teams). The channel only carries a single-use retrieval URL; the bytes live in Dark Transport and self-destruct after retrieval or expiry. Think of it as SendGrid for secrets.

Question 2

How does Dark Transport encrypt payloads?

Accepted Answer

Triple-encrypted by default: AES → Camellia → ChaCha20 with PBKDF2-derived per-message keys. Cipher chains rotate on schedule under a frozen primitive allow-list. Burner stacks are available for top-value bytes — single-use, retired the moment they're consumed.

Question 3

Is Dark Transport a password manager or a messaging app?

Accepted Answer

Neither. Password managers (1Password, Bitwarden) store secrets at rest; messaging apps (Signal, iMessage, WhatsApp) carry conversations. Dark Transport is the transport layer for secrets between people — it rides underneath whatever channel you already use, and it doesn't replace any of them.

Question 4

What channels does Dark Transport work with?

Accepted Answer

Channel-agnostic by design. It works with iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, Telegram, Zalo, Facebook Messenger, and custom in-app channels. The channel carries the retrieval URL; Dark Transport carries the bytes.

Question 5

How long do secrets live on Dark Transport?

Accepted Answer

Retention is bounded by per-message policy — max-views and expiry, both enforced server-side. Once the policy is met, the bytes are unrecoverable. Every send, retrieval, and admin action is logged with cipher fingerprint, actor role, request IP, and payload size.

Question 6

How do I get access?

Accepted Answer

Dark Transport is in private beta by invite. Drop your email at https://darktransport.com/#notify for an invite, integration help, and updates as Mission Impossible mode and the Identity Vault ship.