I want to send a project of mine to a friend but wouldn't want other people/services to read it (like online sharing, or email).
I was thinking about archiving it with a password and send it though mail. What are my other options of doing this?
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I want to send a project of mine to a friend but wouldn't want other people/services to read it (like online sharing, or email).
I was thinking about archiving it with a password and send it though mail. What are my other options of doing this?
Encrypt it via Truecrypt, send it via physical mail, Share it in a VPN
Anything involving strong end-to-end encryption should work. I would use a 7-Zip archive with a huge random password and encrypted filenames. Of course, you must find a way to transfer said password securely also.
Steganography might also be an option, depending on your needs.
That's the thing. I would be very easy to send the encrypted archive with its password in the email message body. But incredibly stupid as well..
Encrypt the Mail? PGP and stuff? If you can verify your partners identity, that should be no problem.
Send and receive encrypted file attachments with Thunderbird / Enigmail / OpenPGP - makandropedia
pgp has been cracked years ago.
your best bet probably is to send the password of the encrypted file to a completely unrelated place that's using ssl. forum pm for example or something.
email, facebook and other public services are a very bad idea for anything of that kind
I'm still for a TrueCrypt container. Maybe upload it to a filelocker. From an internet cafe if you're that paranoid.
Thanks all for your input. I'll consider TrueCrypt for now.
Even if PGP can be cracked by some Institutions, it is still a LOT of work. Since it is open-source and nobody did Crack it in public until now, i assume its pretty secure. The risk that your machine is infected by a NSA-Virus is much higher than your PGP message will be cracked.
Well, if you want something more robust, and if your friend is running Linux (and he should... actually everyone should :smile:) then its quite trivial for him to enable SSH service on his machine. So he makes you a shell account on which you connect and transfer files via scp / sftp. All securely, via trusted, audited open source software, direct pc-to-pc transfer without relying on 3rd party hosters.
Thats how secure transfer is done propertly.
With every user it's getting more and more complex. I'd say - be practical:
Encrypt the archive with a loooogng password and email it.
Give the password personally to your friend.
Relevant XKCD