Share sensitive information securely with zero-knowledge AES-256 end-to-end encryption. Features include burn after reading, password protection, and customizable expiration times.

From an author:

I wanted to share crypt.fyi - a free, open-source tool I built for securely sharing sensitive data/files. It uses client-side encryption and zero-knowledge architecture.

Key features:

- Zero-knowledge architecture
- End-to-end encryption using AES-256-GCM (actively investigating post-quantum encryption options)
- Self-hostable
- Suite of configurations (password, burn after read, max read count, ip/cidr-allow list, webhooks)
- Strict rate-limiting
- Strict CSP to mitigate supply chain attacks
- Web, cli, and chrome-extension clients
- Fully open source (Github)

The problems I aimed to solve: Many people share sensitive info (passwords, keys, etc.) through email, Slack, or SMS - which often leaves plaintext copies in multiple places. Existing solutions either require accounts, aren’t open source, or have security/privacy/ui/ux/feature/config gaps/limitations.

crypt.fyi is built with privacy-first principles:

- No logging of sensitive data
- No analytics or tracking
- Separation of web and api servers
- All encryption/decryption happens client-side using shared cross-platform cryptography primitives from noble cryptography
- TLS encryption for all traffic
- Encrypted data is automatically destroyed after being read with strong guarantees around once-only reads

The entire codebase is open source and available for review. I’d love to get feedback from the privacy community on how to make it even better!

  • hok@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    3 days ago

    Also note that there’s OnionShare, too. You don’t need a TLS certificate or domain, don’t need to port forward and can run it from home safely, routes over Tor so very hard to know you are even sharing something, well known and open source etc.

    • codectlEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      This detracts a bit from the convenience factor in that it requires both sender and receiver to download an app as opposed to having access to a browser. It is however much safer as the client is static and versioned so the privacy guarantees are better.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        In the same way that having a hammer requires a second tool on-hand when I can otherwise just bang the screws into concrete with my adjustable wrench?