BitWorden adds secure text and file transfer to its arsenal

Many current password managers allow you to share your password with family members or other individuals or groups. (You use a password manager, don’t you?) Managers like BitWorden and 1Password have specific ways by which you can share passwords or groups of passwords, making it easier for the family to access a shared streaming service. She goes.

Now Bitwarden Send has been added to a feature called Send, which lets you securely access files (text, if you wish, including passwords) through end-to-end AES-255 bit encryption using a link on your site. ) Allows sending.

Here’s how it works: If you want to send a file (it can be up to 100 MB), you go to BitWorden’s website and click the Send button. When you upload the file, or create a text message, Send will generate a link that you can choose by email, text, or any other method. When the person you send it to clicks the link (and they don’t have to be a registered BitWord user), they are sent to a page where they can either see the text message or download the file .

But before you send the link, there are several security features that you can add. You can set the date and time to be automatically removed from the page linked to the file (in other words, if you then click on the link, you will be notified that it is no longer available) or the link to be finished. You can limit the number of times a file is accessed and you can see how many times it has been accessed so far. And finally, you can set a password for the link.

If you are using Send to create a text message, you can also hide it by default when accessed (so the text is not read immediately).

The new send feature will only be partially available to free BitWorden users. Members with free accounts can use it to send text, but not to files, while people with premium and other paid subscriptions will be able to send both text and files.

BitWorden is apparently taking full advantage of the recently reported migration from LastPass as its free accounts have new limitations later. Since there are already many free services for sending encrypted files, such as We transfer, And having a secure way of sending information such as passwords, personal information, and account numbers, can make this much easier, it seems that BitWorden has given people another good reason to switch from LastPass. The new send feature should be available from 7 am on Monday 15 March.