Products: Safe

Secure document storage and retrieval.

Safe turns any document into a strand and gives it back exactly as it went in.

Safe is the storage API behind Digital Bank, Implexus Vault and Implexus Elephant.

Overview

Storage that gives back exactly what went in.

Safe is the storage and retrieval endpoint of the Q⁴ Data Engine. Each document is held as a strand and named by fifteen characters. It comes back bit-exact, to the people a grant allows.

Safe at a glance
Endpoint
Store and retrieve
Accepts
Any file type, any size
Names each file with
15 characters
Returns
The original, bit-exact
Access
Per grant, per party
Products built on it
Digital Bank, Vault, Elephant

What Safe does

Six things a team can do with Safe from the first day of an evaluation.

Store any file

Documents, media, databases and firmware. Any type, any size.

Name it in fifteen characters

Every stored file gets one descriptor, whatever its size.

Retrieve it exactly

Regenerated where the cell is present. What comes back is what went in.

Grant and withdraw

Decide who can rebuild a file, and take that right back, per party.

Keep every version

Each version of a document carries its own descriptor.

To confirm
Call it from the SDK

The same toolkit that reaches Relay and Forge.

Two documents in. Two short lines out.

The video shows a contract and a scan become two lines of characters, then come back identical. The frame below is the illustrative result for one of them.

supply-agreement.pdf, [size]cZDyhNoj5qxVUEmIllustrative, not produced by the engine.

Technical summary

The shape of the endpoint. Full reference on the developer site.

Interfaces and limits to confirm with engineering.

Operations
Store, retrieve, grant, withdrawTo confirm
Input
Any file type, any size
Output
A fifteen-character descriptor
Retrieval
Bit-exact regeneration where the cell is present
Access control
Per grant: who, how, when, how many times
Interface
[REST API through the SDK]To confirm
Deployment
[Cloud, on-premises, or both]To confirm
SDK languages
[Languages for the first release]To confirm

Questions about Safe

Draft answers. To confirm with product and engineering.

Is the descriptor a password?

No. A descriptor names a file. It does not open it. Opening needs the cell, which Implexus controls, and a grant that says who may open the file and for how long.

Which files can Safe hold?

Any type, at any size. [Limits for the first release: to confirm.]

What comes back when a file is retrieved?

The original, bit-exact. What comes back is what went in.

Where does Safe run?

[Deployment options, regions and hosting: to confirm with engineering.]

How is it licensed?

With the engine: a licence to start, then a royalty per device that ships with the engine inside. No rates are published.

LicensingSafe is licensed with the engine: a licence to start, a royalty per device after that.See how licensing works

Start a licensing conversation.

Tell us what you are storing and for whom.