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Send: Share Files Safely with This Open-Source Successor Of Firefox Send(Firefox Send Fork)
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this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024
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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.
If you trust the client that is encrypting and uploading the file - which runs on your computer and thus can be audited, modified, or even entirely replaced by you. You do not need to trust that the server (which ideally is also free software, but in practice is a black box you don't have any visibility into) is sending you trustworthy code.