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They may be encrypting the file with a parameter passed in the URL. In this case, assuming no logs are kept, it would be a reasonable encryption setup.


The encryption key is passed after the hash (#) in the URL. Therefore the keys are never sent to the server over the HTTP request (more info about this can be found here: https://nofile.io/security/).




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