Creating and working with Secure Vaults
Create a Secure Vault, lock it, set how long it stays open, switch between vaults, and read who opened what.
A vault is the encrypted container your assets and documents live in. It is closed by default: you unlock it with one of your vault keys, work inside it, and it closes again. While it is open the key that opens it exists only in your browser's memory, which is why reloading the page closes it.
Creating a Secure Vault
Click Create Your First Vault, name it, choose BlockWill Secret, name the secret, then click Set your secret and type it twice. A BlockWill Secret is a passphrase of at least 16 characters. The security-method list also offers a hardware passkey (recommended), a phone passkey and Touch ID. The next screen offers Add another security method; click Create Vault, then Explore Your Vault.
Locking a vault
Locking is immediate and takes effect for you as well. Nothing in the vault is readable again until you unlock it with a key.
Click the lock icon in the top bar, or Lock vault on the vault's Manage page, whenever you are stepping away from a shared or public machine. You return to the list of your vaults, all showing Locked. You do not need to lock before signing out.
Auto-lock
Every vault also closes itself after a period of inactivity, whether or not you remember to.
Open the vault and click Manage.
Under Security settings, drag the Auto-Lock Timeout slider. It starts at 1 minute and shows the value as you drag.
Click Save Settings. A message confirms the new timeout.
A long timeout is convenient and less safe. On a laptop you carry around, short is better.
Switching between vaults
You can keep more than one vault, for example a personal one and a business one. Each has its own keys and its own contents, and unlocking one does not unlock the other.
Click the vault name in the header to open the Switch Vault menu and pick the other vault. Its "is sealed." unlock dialog opens straight away: choose that vault's own key and click Unlock vault.
Reading the audit log
Every vault records what happened to it: unlocks, assets added or changed, keys registered or removed, access granted to other people. Open Manage and choose the Audit logs tab. You can filter by action and date, Refresh, or Export CSV.
The log is append-only. It is the record you would rely on if you ever needed to show who touched the estate and when.