In today’s digital world, data privacy is paramount. While cloud services like Google Drive or Dropbox provide easy file sharing, they may not always align ...
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
But if the key is in the URL, that’s provided by the server, where’s the utility of the encryption since the server knows it and so does everyone that has the URL?
But if the key is in the URL, that’s provided by the server, where’s the utility of the encryption since the server knows it and so does everyone that has the URL?
So the trick is to use the
#fragment
part of the URL, that is not sent to the server.Of course the JS one downloads from the server could easily upload it to it, so you still need to trust the JS.
But the JS code could be checked on the webpage, correct? If so, the page could be trysted (if vetted).