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Comment by andy_ppp | Hacker News Reader

That's great, you can encrypt stuff then as follows (on a Mac).

  brew install gpg
  gpg --gen-key
  gpg -ac < file.unencrypted | curl http://transfer.sh/file.encrypted -T -

To decrypt, take the returned URL:

  curl https://transfer.sh/1nKXr/file.encrypted | gpg -ad

Someone can probably improve this!

OP here. Right this is the public / private encryption. The sample from on the site itself is symmetric encryption (using pw).

Handy tip for OS X users: after creating the "transfer" alias, simply use

  transfer file.txt | pbcopy

to get the link copied to your clipboard!

For linux users, install xclip from your flavor of package managers and then:

    transfer file.txt | xclip

link is copied to your clipboard.