Private Archive

Encrypted · Anonymous · Forever

The backup
that doesn’t
know your name.

Restic-encrypted on your device, routed through Tor, settled in Monero. Your client certificate is your only identity — and we never know what it stands for.

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Encrypted on your device

Files are encrypted before they leave you. We hold ciphertext only — we couldn’t read it for you if we tried.

Routed via Tor

Three-hop onion transport. We never learn your IP, you never learn ours.

Paid in Monero

Subaddress per client. No card. No exchange step. The chain forgets who paid.

Zero PII collected

No name, no email, no IP, no device, no analytics. Logs hold 8 chars of cert hash.

How it works

1

Generate a certificate

The client mints an X.509 cert on first run. That file is your account — mTLS only, no password, no recovery. Back it up somewhere safe.

2

Top up in Monero

Send Monero to the printed subaddress. Pay-as-you-go — balance burns down by the second, no plan, no subscription, no lock-in.

3

Back up & forget

Schedule privatearchive backup. Encrypted blobs flow over Tor. Where the ciphertext rests doesn’t matter — only your key opens it.

Pick a binary.

Static, reproducible, open-source. SHA256 sums published. Audit the source — it’s all there.

macOSarm64 · Apple Silicon macOSamd64 · Intel Linuxamd64 · .tar.gz Linuxarm64 · .tar.gz Windowsamd64 · .zip Windowsarm64 · .zip FreeBSDamd64 · .tar.gz FreeBSDarm64 · .tar.gz OpenBSDamd64 · .tar.gz OpenBSDarm64 · .tar.gz Sourceaudit the encryption yourself VerifySHA256SUMS

Install & keep up to date

Every channel below installs the same reproducible, signed binaries. Verify direct downloads against SHA256SUMS; the apt, dnf and pacman repositories are GPG repo-signed with fingerprint 4792 23EA 8405 287A 11FB B12E 02A7 7A1E EDD0 F111.

Any platform — one line

curl -fsSL https://privatearchive.xyz/install.sh | bash

Or download a tarball for macOS, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD or OpenBSD (amd64 + arm64) — and the source — from the latest release.

Debian / Ubuntu — apt

curl -fsSL https://privatearchive.xyz/apt/release-key.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/privatearchive.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/privatearchive.gpg] https://privatearchive.xyz/apt stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/privatearchive.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install privatebackup

Fedora / RHEL — dnf

sudo curl -fsSL https://privatearchive.xyz/dnf/privatearchive.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/privatearchive.repo
sudo dnf install privatebackup

Arch — pacman

curl -fsSL https://privatearchive.xyz/pacman/release-key.asc | sudo pacman-key --add -
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 479223EA8405287A11FBB12E02A77A1EEDD0F111
printf '\n[privatearchive]\nServer = https://privatearchive.xyz/pacman\n' | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf
sudo pacman -Sy privatebackup

macOS — Homebrew

brew install https://privatearchive.xyz/brew/privatebackup.rb

Windows — Scoop

scoop install https://privatearchive.xyz/scoop/privatebackup.json