We have recently added a free service that lets you send an attachment of up to 1MB in size to any mailbox as an encrypted file.
We wanted a way that let people see what our service offers, and what better way than providing a secure means to transfer sensitive documents over that medium we all love, email?
This is basically how it works:
Your file is sent to our servers over SSL, so it's transferred from your computer to our server over a perfectly secure transmission channel.
Then, we randomly generate a 256-bit key, and use it to encrypt your data.
We never see your data, because it's encrypted as it's received, that is, while it's in memory. We don't save any of your data to disk.
You will receive two emails, one with the encrypted attachment, and another with a link to a page that will let you decrypt the attachment.
When you follow the link to decrypt, you will be presented with a form that allows you to upload the attachment, and will return the file to you decrypted. Again, we only access the file 'in memory', and never save it to disk.
This is a great way to send a private file to a colleague or friend, or store a file securely in your Inbox until you need to access it again.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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