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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos? by spuz on Monday May 31, 2021 @08:31AM (#27343388)
ente looks interesting to me, but I would like to have the feature to share an album with anyone who has the link. I guess that is not so easy to do though as it would require creating a decrypted copy of the photos in the album that you wish to share which would take extra time and space.
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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos? by vishnumohandas on Monday May 31, 2021 @09:02AM (#27343635)
The client that is sharing the album could append the decryption key of that album to the URL fragment, such that it never reaches the server.

For example: albums.ente.io/{albumID}/!#{decryptionKey}

Now on the receivers side, the client can use this `decryptionKey` to decrypt and render the photos.

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