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I don't know how they are doing it, but one way this could be solved is with assymetric encryption. If a person wants to see your data, that person asks you fo

by rifung 11y ago

I don't know how they are doing it, but one way this could be solved is with assymetric encryption. If a person wants to see your data, that person asks you for it, and you use their public key to encrypt your data, send it over, and then they can use their private key to decrypt said data. I doubt they are actually doing it this way as I imagine the overhead would be very high, but it need not be as cumbersome as sharing a specific secret key for each person.

tetrep 11y ago
> I doubt they are actually doing it this way as I imagine the overhead would be very high It wouldn't be very high, they could easily put the burden on the client to do the encryption and like all practical public key encryption they only thing you encrypt with the public key(s) is a symmetric encryption key that the content is encrypted with.