FAQ

• What is this?

  encrypting.host is a uploading website focused on privacy. All uploaded files are being encrypted using AES-256-CBC automatically.

• I want to take a file off your site, where to contact?

  As encrypting.host is operating under german laws, please send me a valid takedown request to [email protected]. Childporn etc. will be pulled offline, no questions asked.

• What does encrypting.host log?

  In short: Nothing interesting really. To extend that: encrypting.host is not logging IPs, geolocations or any other unnecessary information in any usual access case. We only log which user uploaded which file, without the encryption key. Additionally following continous ddos attacks all suspicious requests are logged and possibly challenged or blocked by our CDN and DDOS protection provider CloudFlare, for more information please see our privacy policy.

• Why aren’t you moderating uploaded files?

  We can’t and don’t want to. All files are encrypted before being written to disk. There is no interest from our site to see your files. The only way we notice infringing files is by takedown requests.

• How to set encrypting.host up with ShareX?

  We now have an automatic creator for ShareX config files. Check it out here: https://encrypting.host/config

  Copy the following content to your clipboard:

  {
  "Version": "12.4.1",
  "DestinationType": "ImageUploader, TextUploader, FileUploader",
  "RequestMethod": "POST",
  "RequestURL": "https://encrypting.host/upload",
  "Body": "MultipartFormData",
  "Arguments": {
  "password": "%ra%ra%ra%ra%ra%ra%ra%ra%ra%ra%ra%ra%ra%ra",
  "userKey": "your-user-key",
  "urlStyle": "embed",
  "domains": "[\"encrypting.host\", \"womenare.properties\", \"sexin.church\"]",
  "color": "ffffff",
  "title": "encrypting.host",
  "fakelink": "ftp://discord.gg"
  },
  "URL": "$json:data[0].Url$",
  "DeletionURL": "$json:data[0].DeletionUrl$",
  "FileFormName": "file"
  }

  Go into ShareX > Destinations > Custom Uploader Settings, then click Import > From Clipboard.

  On the left side replace your-user-key you got and change the domains to your preferred ones found at https://encrypting.host/#domains.

  You can also select domains by category, rather than the domain itself:
  For all domains use [""].
  For normal, non-offensive and non-depressed domains use ["normal"].
  For offensive domains use ["offensive"].
  For depressive domains use ["sad"].
  You can also combine these tags.

  The urlStyle has 4 types: embed, query, param and specifically for discord fakelink.
  There are some extra parts for embed and fakelink..
  For embed there is title, which will be the title of the embed and site, and color should be a hex value without the #.
  For fakelink the is fakelink, this field should be set to the word or link you want it to be. For links include the protocol in front.

  Now select encrypting.host as your image, text and file uploader, then select Custom Uploader at ShareX > Destinations for image, text and file uploader.

• How do I upload via curl?

  Send bodyform in a post request to https://encrypting.host:

  password: the password that will be used to encrypt the file (use random for safety)

  userKey: Your api-key

  urlStyle: the style of the url (query, param, fakelink or embed)

  domains: a JSON list of the domains you want to use

  (optional) title: the title of the embed

  (optional) color: the color of the embed

  (optional) fakelink: the fakelink you want to set (for discord)

  file: the file data (max 100MB)

  curl -XPOST -F'password=${PASSWORD}' -F'userKey=${USERKEY}' -F'userStyle=query' -F'domains=["offensive"]' -F'[email protected]/TO/FILE' https://encrypting.host/upload
• How do I get a key?

  You can get a user-key by joining our Discord and contacting the ticket bot.

  Be sure to send your email address with your request.