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[–] peregus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (25 children)

Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption

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?

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

How it works: I don’t know about this service in particular, but usually the shared contains the encryption key so like this: example.com/files/file_id/encryption_key or something similar

As for trust: This appears to be a individual, so you will have to just trust it when using the public instance. However, since it is FOSS, you can audit the code and spin up your own instance

[–] halm@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

spin up your own instance

Absolutely. If you're at all worried about sending files through third party sites, set up your own. Provided you trust your own security skills, of course.

I would certainly be more interested in having an install under my own domain than using some rando's that I don't know.

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