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How to check Kenveil before you buy

Kenveil asks you to trust it with how your accounts connect. So this page is a report you can check line by line: who runs Kenveil, where your money goes, what we store, what runs on your PC, and what isn’t done yet.

  • You can check this yourself, from outside.
  • Documented: written down in detail, not yet tested by anyone outside.
  • Not yet: named plainly, with what to do meanwhile.

Who runs Kenveil

Kenveil is built and run by an independent security researcher.

Kenveil makes money one way: the licenses it sells. There are no ads, and no data is sold. The operator’s name and address are in the imprint, as German law requires. They stay there and nowhere else on the site, for the reason Kenveil exists in the first place: keeping what’s public about a person to a minimum.

You can still hold Kenveil to account. Every claim on this page links to where you can check it, the warrant canary is renewed every month, and card payments run through Stripe, which verifies the identity of everyone it pays out to.

Support is a ticket in your Kenveil account, answered by a person. Security researchers report through the disclosure policy.

Business information

Product
Kenveil for Windows 10 and 11 and Linux, version 0.3.4
Operator
An independent security researcher, named in the imprint
On GitHub
github.com/Kenveil (opens in a new tab)
Selling since
October 2026, on kenveil.com
Servers and data
In Spain, under EU privacy law
Payments
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link or Klarna through Stripe; crypto to Kenveil’s own wallets
Prices
In euros, paid once, no subscription
Support
Tickets in your Kenveil account, or email, answered by people
Security reports
Disclosure policy and security.txt

Legal documents

Paying

Where your money goes, and what happens if something goes wrong.

  • Card payments stay with Stripe

    You pay on Stripe’s own checkout page. Kenveil receives the order number and the amount, never your card or bank details.

    You can check thisWhat we receive

  • Crypto goes straight to our wallet

    No payment company in between and no ID check. Your order page links your transaction on a public block explorer, so you can follow it yourself.

    You can check thisHow buying works

  • One payment, nothing renews

    A license is bought once, for a set term or for life. There is no subscription, so nothing is charged again.

    You can check thisThe plans

  • A person reviews every refund

    Open a “Payment or refund” ticket in your account, and a person answers. Your rights as a consumer, like EU withdrawal, stay as the law gives them.

    You can check thisRefund policy

Your data

What Kenveil keeps, how it is protected, and whose accounts it looks at.

  • Every piece of data, listed

    The Ledger names everything Kenveil stores: where it lives, why, how it is protected and when it is deleted.

    You can check thisOpen the Ledger

  • Encrypted with your own key

    Your accounts, scans and alerts are encrypted with a key unique to your account. Deleting your account deletes that key with it.

    DocumentedHow the encryption works

  • Only your own accounts

    Scans start from accounts you verified yourself. The app has no field to look up anyone else: you can see that the moment you open it.

    You can check thisPrivacy by design

  • EU servers, no trackers

    Kenveil’s servers are in Spain, under EU privacy law. This website loads nothing from other companies and sets no tracking cookies: your browser’s network tab shows it.

    You can check thisPrivacy policy

The app on your PC

What you install, and how to check it before you run it.

  • The installer has a published checksum

    Every release is published with its SHA-256 checksum. Compare it with your download before you run the installer: the steps are below.

    You can check thisCheck your download

  • No admin rights, no drivers

    Kenveil runs as your own user. On Windows the installer doesn’t ask for admin rights; on Linux the .deb and .rpm install like any other app. There is no service, no daemon and no kernel driver.

    You can check thisWhat runs on your PC

  • Your hardware stays on your PC

    A license knows your PC only by one-way hashes made on the PC itself. The raw hardware details never leave it.

    DocumentedDevices and licenses

Accountability

Ways to hold us to all of the above.

  • A warrant canary, renewed monthly

    A statement, renewed every month, that no authority has ordered us to hand over data or weaken the app. If it ever stops, that tells you.

    You can check thisCheck the canary

  • A way to report vulnerabilities

    Security researchers have a disclosure policy with a safe harbour, and a security.txt that says where to report.

    You can check thisDisclosure policy

  • Live status

    Whether the service is running right now, checked by our own server and shown without tracking you.

    You can check thisSee the status

  • Changes in the open

    Every release is in the changelog, and what is being built next is on the roadmap.

    You can check thisRead the changelog

Check your download

A checksum is the file’s fingerprint. If yours matches the one we publish, you have exactly the installer we released, unchanged on the way to you.

All the steps, with the SmartScreen warning

  1. In the folder you saved the installer to, open PowerShell and run:

    PowerShell
    Get-FileHash .\Kenveil_0.3.4_x64-setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256

  2. The Hash it prints must match this, letter for letter:

    Published SHA-256
    not available yet

Tested by others

Free public tests run by other organisations. They check the website and the mail server from outside, not the app, so they don’t replace an audit. Each link opens the test’s own result page, where you can run it again.

Results from

Not done yet

Kenveil is new. These are the things a careful buyer should know are missing, and what to do until they aren’t.

  • The installer isn’t code-signed yet

    Planned

    On Windows, SmartScreen warns the first time you run the installer from this site. Kenveil in the Microsoft Store, signed by Microsoft, is on its way.

    Meanwhile: Compare the installer’s SHA-256 checksum with the one published here before you run it. Read more about the installer isn’t code-signed yet

  • Updates are installed by hand until the Store version is out

    Planned

    From the Microsoft Store, Kenveil will update itself. Until then, new versions are published on the download page.

    Meanwhile: Look at the changelog now and then: every release comes with its checksum. Read more about updates are installed by hand until the store version is out

  • No independent security audit yet

    Not scheduled yet

    Kenveil’s security design is written down in full, but no outside firm has tested it yet. That is why some claims above say “Documented”.

    Meanwhile: Read the security page, and report anything you find through the disclosure policy. Read more about no independent security audit yet

So far

Everything a buyer would care about, with the day it happened.

  1. Kenveil 0.1.0 for Windows

    The first public build, with all eleven tools and the Ledger of everything it keeps.

  2. The shop opens

    Licenses on the website, paid in crypto straight to Kenveil’s own wallets.

  3. Card payments, and the warrant canary

    Payments through Stripe, the EU withdrawal consent at checkout, the transparency report and the first canary.

  4. Privacy policy 1.5

    The current privacy policy: what we collect, why, who else receives it, and for how long.

  5. Stablecoins, gifts and two-PC keys

    USDT, USDC, EURC, DAI and PYUSD, gift cards to print, and one key for two PCs.

  6. Kenveil for Linux

    Version 0.3.0: a .deb, an .rpm and an AppImage, each with its SHA-256 on the download page.

  7. In the Chrome Web Store

    Kenveil for Chrome, Edge and Brave passed Google’s review and is listed in the Chrome Web Store.

Ask a person before you buy

Open a ticket in your Kenveil account about buying, payments, refunds, or whether Kenveil fits what you need. No account yet? Create one for free.

Ask a personSee the plans