How to quickly send any file in an encrypted form
Tips / / December 19, 2019
It so happens that it is necessary to urgently send to your colleagues or potential customers with valuable information by e-mail. What if the public file sharing does not make you trust? You can use Google Drive, or Yandex. Drive. But what if you do not have an account in any Google products or services in Yandex? In that case, there are 2 useful online tool for encryption and file transfer.
Service to encrypt files using HTML5 technology. Moreover, you do not need to install any plug-ins or add-ons for the browser.
You select the desired file or multiple files, specify the password and presses on the encryption key. For a couple of seconds the browser will create you an encrypted copy of the desired file. The recipient will have to take a file to upload to the same site and enter your password.
To encrypt a large number of files or large media files, this service does not fit: to reach the limit of 30 MB, you'll see a warning.
The second service to encrypt files before sending or uploading in e-mail clients, or file sharing on a local network. Encryption takes place by means of a password or a string of random characters, and you are given a link to a protected file, which can be shared with the recipient of the file. In fact, it - file storage that also supports encryption and decryption of downloaded files in the browser of the recipient before saving to your local media.
The maximum shelf life of the protected file in the file hosting is 7 days.
These are two fairly simple, but comfortable service to create encrypted backups of your files. Now you can be sure that in addition to you and the recipient to whom you are sending a document or audio recording, no one else will see or read your data.