Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private
Nick Nguyen, The Mozilla Blog, 2019/03/12
Firefox Send is a simple file-sharing application that mostly it just works. It uses the Web Cryptography JavaScript API with the AES-GCM algorithm for encryption; this is supported by most browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Edge) but not older and less secure browsers (Internet Explorer 11). Navigate to the Send web page, log in with a Firefox UserID, and upload a file. You'll be given a download link to share. The link expires after a preset number of downloads (up to 100)  or after after a certain time has elapsed (up to one week). More...