https://www.theiphonewiki.com/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Apple_Encrypted_Archive 2026-04-05T17:00:02Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.31.14 https://www.theiphonewiki.com/w/index.php?title=Apple_Encrypted_Archive&diff=119682&oldid=prev 2021-11-20T04:57:16Z

<p>Mention the public Swift API</p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:57, 20 November 2021</td> </tr><tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker">&#160;</td> <td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Apple Encrypted Archive''' is a proprietary archive format that can compress, encrypt, and/or sign a file.</div></td> <td class="diff-marker">&#160;</td> <td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; 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Nicolas17 https://www.theiphonewiki.com/w/index.php?title=Apple_Encrypted_Archive&diff=119680&oldid=prev 2021-11-20T04:38:45Z

<p>stub</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Apple Encrypted Archive''' is a proprietary archive format that can compress, encrypt, and/or sign a file.<br /> Its magic number is the 4 ASCII characters &quot;AEA1&quot;.<br /> <br /> macOS Monterey ships an &lt;code&gt;aea&lt;/code&gt; command line tool that can create and extract (decrypt) these archives (see [https://man.cameronkatri.com/macOS/aea aea manpage]).<br /> There are also functions in libAppleArchive.dylib to create and extract them.<br /> <br /> It's notably used since iOS 15 for signed .shortcut files created in Shortcuts.<br /> <br /> {{stub|software}}<br /> [[Category:File Formats]]</div>

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