http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Apple_Encrypted_Archive 2026-05-04T15:45:06Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.19.2 http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Apple_Encrypted_Archive&diff=49267&oldid=prev 2024-09-02T03:08:32Z

<p>AEA files don&#039;t *always* have an Apple Archive inside</p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 03:08, 2 September 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|extensions={{ext|aea}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|extensions={{ext|aea}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Apple Encrypted Archive is a proprietary file format that can compress, encrypt, and sign files <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">based on </del>[[Apple Archive]].&lt;ref&gt;https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/aea.1.html&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Apple_Encrypted_Archive&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Apple Encrypted Archive is a proprietary file format that can compress, encrypt, and sign files<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The decrypted and decompressed payload often contains an </ins>[[Apple Archive]].&lt;ref&gt;https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/aea.1.html&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Apple_Encrypted_Archive&lt;/ref&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>iOS 18 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">has </del>started to use AEA encrypted files.&lt;ref&gt;https://x.com/EliotAndres/status/1800453152938082308&lt;/ref&gt; &#160;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>iOS 18 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">firmware images have </ins>started to use AEA<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-</ins>encrypted <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Apple Disk Image|DMG]] </ins>files.&lt;ref&gt;https://x.com/EliotAndres/status/1800453152938082308&lt;/ref&gt; &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Image:AppleArchive.png|300px]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Image:AppleArchive.png|300px]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Nicolas17 http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Apple_Encrypted_Archive&diff=48764&oldid=prev 2024-06-11T16:55:08Z

<p>Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Archiving |extensions={{ext|aea}} }} Apple Encrypted Archive is a proprietary file format that can compress, encrypt, and sign file...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |formattype=electronic<br /> |subcat=Archiving<br /> |extensions={{ext|aea}}<br /> }}<br /> Apple Encrypted Archive is a proprietary file format that can compress, encrypt, and sign files based on [[Apple Archive]].&lt;ref&gt;https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/aea.1.html&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Apple_Encrypted_Archive&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> iOS 18 has started to use AEA encrypted files.&lt;ref&gt;https://x.com/EliotAndres/status/1800453152938082308&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> [[Image:AppleArchive.png|300px]]<br /> <br /> ==File Information==<br /> '''AEA''' archive files begin with the hex values &quot;{{magic|41454131}}&quot;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> &lt;references/&gt;</div>

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