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		aendruk on April 7, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: FileNation – A simple way to send files u... How private are files "sent" using this method? Doesn't the pinning node broadcast its hashes to the network?

e12e on April 7, 2018 [–]

I suppose a quick lookup to keybase for a gpg key (as it already asks for email), and then encryption with:

https://github.com/openpgpjs/openpgpjs

Would be one approach. Or, as a link is sent "out of band", I suppose one could simply provide a symmetric key in the email. Not as secure - but might be sufficient.

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