LockFlare Cipher

Cipher is the desktop app you deploy from. It is also the only piece of LockFlare software that ever reads your source in plaintext — and it runs on your machine, not ours.

Everything you do to a deployment happens here: importing projects, defining environments, registering servers, pushing builds, watching fleet health, sealing machines and administering your team.

What it does on your machine

Reads the project folder you develop in — the same folder, no copy, no export step.
Packs it in memory. Nothing is written to a temp directory.
Encrypts it with AES-256-GCM before anything leaves the machine.
Uploads ciphertext and signals your servers to load it.

The order matters. Encryption happens locally, not on receipt. There is no window in which a readable copy of your project exists anywhere outside your development folder and the RAM of your own server.

Platforms

macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows. Download either from lockflare.com/download, or from inside the app when an update is available.

How this section is organised

The pages that follow track the order you will actually do things in: sign in, look around the home screen, create an environment, register a server, import a project, push it, point a domain at it. Monitoring, Enclave, team management and the activity log come after, because they matter once something is running.

If you want the short version first, Installation walks the whole path end to end in one page.

Migrating an existing app Signing in