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# Devolutions Send Standalone

[Devolutions Send Standalone](https://devolutions.net/devolutions-send/) features a secure method to generate a link to share secrets instead of using insecure email to send sensitive data.

### Features

Despite sharing the same underlying architecture, slight differences exist between the feature set of the standalone and in-app versions of Devolutions Send.

* Unique link encrypted on the client side.
* Valid for a customizable amount of time.
* Optional protection via a client-provided passphrase.
* Users may be non-Devolutions users (not linked to a Devolutions Account).
* Character limit of 10 kb.
* A sender email is required and stored with the GUID as part of the “payload” stored in the database.

### How to use Devolutions Send Standalone

1. Go to the [Devolutions Send Standalone](https://send.devolutions.com/) website.
2. Enter the ***Sender email***, which is required and stored with the GUID as part of the “payload” stored in the database.
3. Enter your ***Secure message*** to encrypt.
   * A file of maximum 1 MB can be added to the secure message as well.
4. Add a ***Passphrase*** for extra security (mandatory if the recipient does not have a Devolutions Account, optional otherwise).
   * ***Additional security options***:
     * The ***Link duration*** can be set to 1 hour, 24 hours, 3 days or 1 week.
     * The ***View limit*** can be set to Unlimited, Single view or Multiple views. The Multiple views option is useful for setting an exact amount of possible views.
     * It is recommended to enable the ***Allow recipient to delete message*** option.
5. Read and agree to our online services terms.
6. Click on ***Create secure link*** to get the in-browser encrypted link.

   ![](https://cdnweb.devolutions.net/docs/CLOUD0001_2024_3.png)
7. Click on ***Copy to clipboard*** and send it to the recipient(s).

### How to receive a Devolutions Send Standalone secret

1. Click on the received encrypted link.

   <div data-gb-custom-block data-tag="hint" data-style="warning" class="hint hint-warning"><p>A Devolutions Send Standalone secret will always start with https://send.devolutions.com/receive/.</p></div>
2. Click on ***Unmask text***.

   <div data-gb-custom-block data-tag="hint" data-style="warning" class="hint hint-warning"><p>Make certain to be in a private setting before reading this message if it contains sensitive information.</p></div>

   ![](https://cdnweb.devolutions.net/docs/CLOUD0002_2024_3.png)
3. Enter the ***Passphrase*** the sender provided (if necessary) and click on ***Decrypt***.

   ![](https://cdnweb.devolutions.net/docs/docs_en_kb_KB0187.png)
4. Once done, click on ***Delete Now***.
5. Click ***Yes***.

   ![](https://cdnweb.devolutions.net/docs/docs_en_kb_KB0189.png)

   ![](https://cdnweb.devolutions.net/docs/docs_en_kb_KB0190.png)

### Technical details

The core tenant of Devolutions Send is that Devolutions itself cannot decrypt the user's secret. This is accomplished via client-side (browser) encryption through a Rust program compiled to WASM (WebAssembly) in-browser. Therefore, Devolutions does not hold the encryption key and cannot decrypt the data.

#### See also

* [Devolutions Blog - How organizations can safely share confidential information with Devolutions Send](https://blog.devolutions.net/2024/08/how-organizations-can-safely-share-confidential-information-with-devolutions-send/)


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