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by igetspam 4305 days ago
Great idea but where I'd find value in something like this is for securely transferring files to people who, presumably, are somewhat clued. If I needed to do that, doing it without SSL seems counter productive (as has been pointed out). Additionally, while the four hour deletion is nifty, were I building this (could be a fun toy to hack together), I'd like a settable timer or download count. The comment about auto generating to URI path is spot on too. Sure, it would be nice to be able to choose but in many cases, a randomized path is ideal.

Again, cool toy and a fun idea but...

Too bad the code isn't available so I could hack it up a bit. I've saved this, in case bored and want to give it a try on my own some time.

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You might be interested in this project I worked on https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg it's end to end encryption, there's no settable timeout but there is a delete command so something like what you're saying might be possible.

I've already posted below but wanted to share this with you incase you're interested.

Hey, thanks for your feedback. A gpg encryption help has been added, you can check this out.