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And what benefit do you imagine that conferring?

By encrypting the data before turning into a URL neither the server, nor anyone who obtains that URL would be able to read the message without knowing the password.

Kinda like how ezcrypt works? https://ezcrypt.it/

As I understand it this is exactly how Zerobin works. The server stores the encrypted data, and the key is passed in the URL only.

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