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ornornor
on Aug 10, 2020
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Ask HN: Send.firefox.com has been down for weeks. ...
Right but they don’t encrypt the files, do they? So they have a clear copy of it in their servers, correct?
BorisEm
on Aug 10, 2020
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Files are encrypted at rest, but no end to end encryption, you're right.
ornornor
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Ok that’s the same as Firefox send then. The server operators can’t decrypt the files without the key contained in the url, at which point the file is decrypted and transmitted over https.
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