In today’s digital world, data privacy is paramount. While cloud services like Google Drive or Dropbox provide easy file sharing, they may not always align ...
The fragment of a URL is not sent to the server, so that’s where such platforms usually store the key. That’s also the way cryptpad does it. You can thus share the URL and with it the key.
Of course, you still need to trust the platform. The sourcecode link at the bottom of the page links to https://github.com/timvisee/send who forked from mozilla/send and links back to the web page.
How is this possible if the only thing that is shared between sender and receiver is just a link (that is provided by the website)?
How can we trust https://send.vis.ee/? Who are they?
The fragment of a URL is not sent to the server, so that’s where such platforms usually store the key. That’s also the way cryptpad does it. You can thus share the URL and with it the key.
Of course, you still need to trust the platform. The sourcecode link at the bottom of the page links to https://github.com/timvisee/send who forked from mozilla/send and links back to the web page.
Oh, now I get it, the whole system works if we trust the guy that provide that system.