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Building a static React App to share encrypted notes

Liam Griffiths on July 28, 2018

I started writing this little web app as a way to learn about setting up a website on Netlify and to try out some new libraries. It was a lot of ...
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Rinzler

Nice service, a couple of months ago I searched for a service exactly like this as I wanted to share a one-time read encrypted password. It's really handy for sharing this kind of messages, the interface is pretty straight to the point and the service works fine. Great job. It's on my bookmarks now :)

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Liam Griffiths

Thanks for taking a look at it! When I get a little more time I think I’ll add to the post with some points of interest in the code too :)

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Sam

What do you mean by "the password never leaves the browser"? Are you just referring to the unencrypted version of the password? Because If it's appended to the URL , assuming it's shared it definitely does leaves the browser.

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Liam Griffiths

Thanks for taking a look and for leaving the question- I might edit that description again when I get a chance to clear up what I meant there.

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Osama Najjar

Cool feature!!

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Liam Griffiths

Certainly possible - though I'm sure what the benefit there would be and I like that the server doesn't need to ever handle passwords at all. What did you have in mind?