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Private Messages
Private Messages

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Temporary Private Message

Temporary Private Message service with encryption, self-destruction and many other security features. Private Message allows you to share notes and messages with end-to-end encryption and a link that expires automatically. So you can keep what you share privately and make sure your stuff doesn't stay online forever.

What is the private note or private message?

Have you ever tried to send sensitive information to your family or friends in your work environment but were scared of it on the Internet because you could be spied on by any malicious hackers? The private note is a free, web-based service that enables you to share highly secret notes over the internet. It is fast, easy and needs no user registration or password at all. With the private note, you can create messages which will self-destruct after being read or after a timer expires if they won't be read in time. We have a strong emphasis on security and privacy. Only those who have the complete note URL can decrypt/read the message which means that we can't give decrypted messages to third-parties or even to our own admins, even if we wanted to!

Why use a secure temporary message service?

If you need to send a password or some other form of simple but sensitive information to someone you can not send it over IM or email. These methods are not secure, anyone with little knowledge can intercept this information during transmission. Using the private note as the "middle man" you can safely and securely transfer this data to your recipient. The private note in other words self destruct note is a web-based service that allows you to share a note or a message over the internet confidently. Write your private message, and the system will generate a secure link. Then you can copy that link into an email or instant message then you can send it to the person you want to read the note. When that person first clicks the link they will see the note in their browser and the note will immediately delete itself, which ensures that no one (even the same person) will read the note again. The link will no longer accessible.

https://privatemessages.co

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Mia Conn

Great idea.

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Pavel Polívka • Edited

Great idea. Does not work.
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Private Messages

Thank you very much for your report. Cloudflare cache system caused this problem. I fixed it.

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Sandor Dargo

It worked fine, my only question is what makes this service trustable?

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Debojyoti Chakraborty

Awesome what crypto methods are used in this project and is this opensource love to contribute?