Saturday, August 9, 2025

Why does my Mac show a strangely named volume (credence and cryptex) after updating the OS?

I noticed this after updating Catalina to Sequoia.

Disk Utility on my Mac shows a disk image named Creedence11M6270.SECUREPKITRUSTSTOREASSETS_SECUREPKITRUSTSTORE_Cryptex:

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It does not take up much space, but the name is not familiar to me and Apple doesn’t document this anywhere officially in their support pages. I don’t think the size it occupies is a serious problem for me, but I would like to know if it’s legitimate or a sign of an update that was not entirely successful.

here is the output of diskutils list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *28.0 GB    disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         27.7 GB    disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         1000.0 GB  disk1s2

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1.0 TB     disk2
                                 Physical Stores disk1s2, disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     398.3 GB   disk2s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 4.5 GB     disk2s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.3 GB     disk2s3
   4:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.1 GB    disk2s4
   5:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 11.1 GB    disk2s4s1
   6:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 MB     disk2s6

/dev/disk3 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                                                   +4.2 MB     disk3

/dev/disk4 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +4.2 MB     disk4
                                 Physical Store disk3
   1:                APFS Volume Creedence11M6270.SEC... 692.2 KB   disk4s1

I this a legitimate part of macOS?

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