How to send a file with a password
A 38-second animation: upload a file to LOCK.PUB, set a password, and send the link with the password separately. The recipient opens it in a browser, with no app or account, and downloads the file with the password. A downloaded copy can't be recalled, so send it only to someone you trust.
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Need to send someone a private file?
Attachments stay in inboxes and get forwarded.
There's another way.
Upload the file to LOCK.PUB…
…and set a password.
Send them the link…
…and the password, separately.
No app or account needed to open it.
With the password, they download it.
The downloaded copy is theirs…
…so send it only to someone you trust.
Someone with only the link?
No password, no file.
A password on the files you send.
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