Vortex Vault is a production-ready, cross-platform Command Line Interface (CLI) cryptographic utility designed to secure private files and directories selectively. Operating under a strict Zero-Knowledge Architecture, your master PIN never enters disk storage in plaintext. Leveraging robust AES-256-GCM encryption and an industry-standard PBKDF2 key derivation framework, it guarantees supreme military-grade data privacy.

💡 Tip: Replace these placeholders with your actual application screenshots once uploaded to your repository assets folder.

• 🛡️ Cryptographic Key Hierarchy: Derives a Key Encryption Key (KEK) via PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA-256 with 480,000 iterations (OWASP 2023 Compliant) to safely wrap the Data Encryption Key (DEK).
• 🔗 Chunked Processing & AAD Binding: Large asset payloads are structured inside .vtx wrappers utilizing Additional Authenticated Data (b"<file_uuid>:<chunk_index>"), locking out chunk-swapping or truncation vectors.
• 📂 OS-Level Global Database Registry: Automatically backs up vault configurations into Windows AppData/Local (or Unix ~/.config). Even if your local hidden .vortex folder is accidentally deleted, your environment auto-reconstructs natively upon execution!
• ⚡ Double-Alias Mapping: Fully compatible with both vortex and short-form vtx CLI runtime invocation signatures.
• 🧠 Anti-Intrusion Lockout & Audit Trails: Features an active background lockout matrix that freezes operations after 3 failed access attempts, backed by an unencrypted persistent audit log.

Vortex Vault can be deployed using either the raw Python developer pipeline or via the standalone high-performance Windows binary executable installer package.

Ensure you have Python 3.8 or later installed on your system terminal framework.

# 1. Clone the repository framework
git clone https://github.com/mmizan85/VorTex.git
cd VorTex

# 2. Deploy core package dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# 3. Mount and bind development links natively
pip install -e .

# 4. Verify cross-platform runtime operational state
vortex --version
# OR use short-form alias
vtx --version

For standard users, download our single-bundle high-speed deployment framework compiled with professional Inno Setup (LZMA2/Ultra64 Compression Engine).

1. Navigate to the GitHub Releases portal page.
2. Download the unified executable payload: VortexVault_Setup.exe.
3. Open the setup wizard file and proceed with the automated installation parameters.
4. Boom! 🎉 The installer securely updates your Windows Environment System Path variables natively. Open any fresh PowerShell instance or Command Prompt anywhere and start managing your workspace immediately using vortex or vtx.

Vortex Vault implements a highly explicit, clear, and clean terminal matrix formatting scheme driven by the Python Rich package.

VorTex/
├── assets/                     # Media files, graphics, and documentation screenshots
│   └── screenshots/
├── vortex/                     # Core system implementation packages
│   ├── __init__.py             # Engine package properties metadata
│   ├── audit.py                # Logging pipelines for monitoring security state
│   ├── cli.py                  # Custom Rich interface CLI layout configuration
│   ├── crypto_engine.py        # Cryptographic layer foundations (AES-GCM / PBKDF2)
│   ├── exceptions.py           # Specialized exception handler classifications
│   ├── file_ops.py             # Atomic file processing layers and zeroing tasks
│   ├── security.py             # Memory-cleaning primitives and runtime safeguards
│   ├── selector.py             # Multi-select dropdown checkboxes framework terminal UI
│   └── vault_manager.py        # Core structural logic & OS Global Registry management
├── installer_config.iss        # Premium Inno Setup configuration scripts source
├── main.py                     # Global unified execution endpoint router
├── requirements.txt            # System component dependency matrix
└── setup.py                    # Global platform packaging and linking definitions

To construct a high-speed runtime optimized directly for Windows administrative file management structures, execute the standard compilation payload:

pyinstaller --onefile --name=vortex --clean --icon=vortex_icon.ico main.py

This single administrative bypass pipeline optimizes loading latencies, maps resource allocation hooks efficiently, and encapsulates the complete system logic structure elegantly.

• Mohammad Mijanur Rahman (@MohammadMizan)
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This project configuration is licensed under the terms defined within the MIT License.