Honeycake is built on a zero-exposure architecture. Encryption and decryption happen entirely on your own machines. We distribute access to keys, never your documents. So a breach of Honeycake cannot expose what we never held.
Four properties hold for every .cake, on every platform, by design rather than by policy.
Files are encrypted on your device before they move anywhere. Plaintext and encryption keys never transit our infrastructure. What leaves your machine is already a sealed .cake.
Our servers exist to distribute access to keys, not to store or process your documents. Honeycake never sees, holds, or scans the contents of your files.
After a .cake is out, you are still in charge: add new recipients, rescind access for specific people, or Burn the file for everyone. Pull it back the moment a recipient changes, a deal falls through, or a laptop goes missing.
Every .cake carries its own encryption, permission set, and access record. The controls move with the document, not with the network it happens to be sitting on.
The honest question a security team should ask any vendor: if you get compromised, what happens to our data? Here is our answer, in full.
Most platforms hold your files (encrypted at rest with keys they also control). Compromise the provider and the plaintext is reachable. Your exposure is tied to their security posture.
We never receive your documents in the first place. A full compromise of Honeycake reaches key-distribution metadata, not your files, because your files never reach us. Your exposure is not tied to our servers.
The same envelope protects machine-readable secrets. Teams store API keys, tokens, and credentials as .cake files directly in the places they already work (source control, config, pipelines) with access granted and revoked per identity. It is an approach we run on ourselves internally.
Access to a secret is a decision you make and un-make. Honeycake grants and revokes who can open it. (It does not rotate the secret itself: that stays in your control.)
A committed .cake is inert to anyone without access. Secrets can sit in a repo or config file without becoming a liability, an alternative to standing up a separate vault for every workflow.
Honeycake is built by a team with roughly 100 combined years in enterprise security and data systems. Our founder previously built Integral Ad Science (NASDAQ: IAS) and holds patents in fraud detection and data protection. Headquartered in Center City, Philadelphia.
Meet the team →We are happy to walk your security team through our architecture, data flows, and controls in detail. Request our current security package below.
How we talk about compliance: we publish only what is true today and say plainly what is still in progress. For the current status or documentation of anything below, contact our security team and we will respond with specifics.
A written description of the zero-exposure model, encryption, and key-access flow. Available today on request, or read the technical whitepaper.
We are currently undergoing our SOC 2 Type II examination, with completion targeted for early fall 2026. Reach out for current status and timeline.
Because your documents never reach our servers, most traditional data-processing exposure does not apply: there is no customer file content for a subprocessor to touch or a region to store. We are glad to review a DPA covering the limited key-access metadata we do handle.
Independent third-party penetration test conducted by Druvstar. Full report available on request.
Doing vendor review, a security questionnaire, or an architecture deep-dive? We will get you what you need, including a walkthrough with the people who built it.
