AES

When you need to send sensitive data through Facebook or email, such as a Google API token or a company’s annual accounts, do you really trust those online services? Personally, I don’t. There are too many possibilities, from hacker attacks to poor internal controls at a company that let employees view customer data. Because of these possibilities, I’m not really willing to send confidential data over the internet. But in this day and age, sending data without using services like email or Facebook Messenger is almost impossible. In that case, you can use AES to encrypt the file, and then share the password through a channel you trust, such as a phone call or in person. Or at the very least, send the password through a different channel than the file, to reduce the risk of everything being compromised at once. ...