SafeBox

Concerns regarding privacy are ever-rising in today’s digital world, and one such issue is protecting the content that you share from third parties. Given that most files you send to a person you trust are first uploaded to a cloud, it’s not even paranoid to assume that someone other than the recipient could access those files if they wanted to.

To prevent this from happening or, at least, to help you sleep better at night, you could use an app like SafeBox.

The developers responsible for SafeBox obviously take privacy very seriously; so seriously that when you go to the About section of the program, the developers are listed as John Doe and Lorem Ipsum. But what makes SafeBox great is that it offers the same anonymity to its users. After you install the app, you won’t be asked to register with a username and a password; you’ll be given a unique ID, and you’ll need to know other people’s IDs before you can send them any files.

You also need to add those IDs to your contacts, and only there you can assign them names, so you don’t get confused by all those numbers. Still, this isn’t the only thing that SafeBox does to ensure user and content privacy.

Probably the app’s best feature is that it encrypts files during transfers. For this very purpose, it uses PGP (Pretty Good Privacy – a very powerful encryption tool) and the RSA cryptosystem. At the same time, even though files are sent via cloud storage, they are instantly deleted after the recipient has finished downloading.

Such a combination of features is designed to ensure that the user’s transfers are fully protected against all possible third-party interventions. SafeBox also comes with a very user-friendly and well-designed interface, giving us just one more reason to recommend it as a file-sharing app.