Add SimpleX Chat iOS support (SQLCipher via keychain) - #2257
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SimpleX keeps its data in a SQLCipher-encrypted database (simplex_v1_chat.db) in the group.chat.simplex.app app group. The database passphrase is a generic-password keychain item (account databasePassword, access group chat.simplex.app), so the keychain is supplied with --keychain or the GUI field, matching the Signal module. The database is decrypted in memory with the SQLCipher 4 defaults (4096 byte pages, 256000 PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 iterations, SHA512 HMAC), which authenticated every page on the tested sample. Three artifacts: - Messages (chat_items): time, direction (item_sent), sender and chat resolved from contacts, groups and group members, message text, and a conversation view. Attachments render inline from the unencrypted app_files, linked through the files table. - Contacts (contacts + contact_profiles). - Group Members (group_members + groups + profiles). Field mapping was done against a private sample; no sample data recorded. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds SimpleX Chat support for iOS, which had no coverage.
SimpleX keeps its data in a SQLCipher-encrypted database, simplex_v1_chat.db, in the group.chat.simplex.app app group. The database passphrase is stored in the iOS keychain (generic-password account databasePassword, access group chat.simplex.app), so the keychain is supplied with --keychain or the keychain field in the GUI, the same way the Signal module works; a keychain the extraction carries is picked up automatically. The database is decrypted in memory with the SQLCipher 4 defaults (4096 byte pages, 256000 PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 iterations, SHA512 HMAC), and every page authenticated on the sample tested.
Three artifacts:
Field mapping was done against a private sample.