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Reading as device:

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Reading as deviceEach message is sealed separately for every recipient device. Pick a device here to decrypt the transcript with that device's key — exactly what that person would see. In a real deployment only the device's owner holds its private key.

safety #: 87470 58023 48005 09504 58335 21006 03237 44686 93865 03569 57814 53761

Draft saved on this device only until you seal & send.

What the server actually stores
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On-the-wire envelopeThis is the raw record the server keeps for the latest message: iv (a one-time nonce), eph_pub (the sender's per-message public key), and ciphertext (the sealed bytes). There is no plaintext column anywhere — only a holder of the recipient device's private key can read the message.

wire.envelope
$ halo show --raw --last
iv: yP5pJOXPqRdAdRio
eph_pub: MCowBQYDK2VuAyEAFYf7Se2xUkLiypw6u19YPG+2devx…
ciphertext:sW/koIbv8nq9HQhcQMH7XKYwiMrEzh/5wlSznoLMUWtW…
plaintext: <never stored on server>