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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Actually, I believe Firefox Send encoded the encryption key in a # URL anchor, as that's never sent to the server, but accessible to the client.

example.com/files/file_id#encryption_id

Otherwise, the server would know the key after the file was retrieved.