By Manny Fernandez

March 8, 2020

Website for Sending Self-Destruct Messages

Have you ever wanted to send someone a PSK for a VPN as an example and cannot use an encrypted email?  Here is a website that will allow you to send encrypted messages that get deleted once they are read.  Here is the link to the website.

The Website

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The interface is very plain and no frills.  You can choose Show options button to see more options.

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In the Options page, we can choose a few options.  I normally use the default which is after reading it for the Note Self-destruct.  You can set a password and then an email validation that the message has been destroyed.  You can also give it an optional reference note.

Typical Use Case

In this use case, I am going to send a typical PSK for a VPN that I want to send to someone.  Normally, I would not put any marks in the Reference section that could lead to anything about the true nature of the message.

Sending Message

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Above, you can see I kept the default of Note self-destruct option to after reading it.  I want it to prompt telling the recipient that the message will in fact self-destruct.

I also added my Monkey email address to validate.

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Once you Create Note you will have this screen displayed.  You can either copy the link via `⌘ C` or `CTRL C’ depending on your OS.  You can also email although, to me it gives too much “paper trail”.

Receiving the message

I opened my Brave Browser to mimic another user receiving the message.

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Once you open the message, you will be prompted for the password.

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Here we can see the the unencrypted message and the warning message saying it has been destroyed.

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Finally, I received the email saying the message has been destroyed.

Hope this helps.

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