An alternative to Cryptshare, included with your drive.

Cryptshare is how many law firms, accountancies and supervisors receive confidential files today. It is a European product, from Pointsharp, so this is not a story about American law. Binadit Receive keeps the habits your people and your clients know, encrypts in the sender's browser, and comes with Binadit Drive rather than as a licence of its own.

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Provider
Cryptshare
Headquarters
Freiburg, Germany
Jurisdiction
Germany
Legal regime
EU law (GDPR)

What is different from Cryptshare

Three things, none of them about jurisdiction. Where the files are encrypted: with Receive that happens in the sender's browser before upload, so our server only ever stores ciphertext and never sees the password. What it costs: Cryptshare is licensed separately, per mailbox, and Receive is included with Binadit Drive without a licence per user or per sender. And how many systems you keep: Receive uses the same login and the same servers as your mail and your files.

Cryptshare, and what replaces it in Binadit Workspace

Binadit Receive is part of Binadit Drive: a page on your own address where clients, counterparties and applicants hand you files.

Receiving files from outside

What we run instead
Binadit Receive: the sender opens your link, chooses your colleague and drops files or a whole folder.
Engineering note
No account, no app and no attachment in the mail.

Encryption

What we run instead
Names and contents are encrypted in the sender's browser before upload. The server only ever stores ciphertext.
Engineering note
It uses the open age format. The password is never stored or mailed and cannot be recovered by an administrator, or by us.

Large files

What we run instead
Up to 100 files and 10 GB per transfer, uploaded in pieces that resume after a dropped connection.
Engineering note
A whole folder can be dropped at once.

Retention

What we run instead
Kept for 1 to 30 days, 14 by default, and then deleted automatically.
Engineering note
You choose the period.

Who can receive

What we run instead
Only addresses on your own domains. A sender cannot send to a private address or to a typo.
Engineering note
Your administrator lists the domains.

Oversight

What we run instead
Your administrator sees every transfer with its size, expiry and delivery status, and can revoke it.
Engineering note
File names stay encrypted, for the administrator too.

Sending files to others

What we run instead
A Drive sharing link to a file or a folder that expires when you choose, 30 days at most.
Engineering note
Part of Binadit Workspace, with the same login as your mail.

Licence

What we run instead
Included with Binadit Drive. No licence per user or per sender.
Engineering note
It works whether or not you sync files with Drive.

Cryptshare for Outlook

What we run instead
Not replaced. Receive works from a web page, so there is nothing to install in a mail program.
Engineering note
The notification to your colleague is an ordinary mail with a download link, without the password.

How we migrate off Cryptshare

Transfers are temporary by design, so there is no archive to move out of Cryptshare. Switching means your clients get a new address to send to.

  1. Before the move

    Receive is set up on your domain

    Receive comes with Binadit Drive. We set up your domains, the colleagues who may receive and the retention period with you.

  2. Side by side

    Your Receive address goes where the old link was

    On your website, in mail signatures and in engagement letters. Transfers that are still running in the old service simply expire there.

  3. Switch day

    The old service is switched off

    Nothing has to be migrated. You cancel the old subscription once the last running transfer has expired.

Binadit Workspace is quoted per company, because the number of mailboxes, the storage and a possible server of your own differ each time. Ask for a demo and you get a quote with it.

Frequently asked questions

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Cryptshare is European already. Why change?
Not for legal reasons: Cryptshare is a product of Pointsharp, a European company, and this page makes no legal argument against it. The difference is that Receive encrypts in the sender's browser, is included with Drive instead of licensed separately, and is not one more system to manage.
What if the sender loses the password?
Then the transfer is unreadable, for you and for us. The password is never stored, never mailed and cannot be reset. The sender sends the files again.
Does the sender need an account?
No. A link on your domain is enough. The sender opens it in a browser, chooses your colleague and drops the files.
Is Binadit Workspace only this one product?
No. One login covers mail, calendar and contacts, Drive for your files, Receive for getting files from outsiders safely, Office for documents in the browser, Meet for video meetings and Book for appointments. Everything runs on servers in the Netherlands that Binadit operates itself.
What does Binadit Workspace cost?
Binadit Workspace is quoted per company, because the number of mailboxes, the storage and a possible server of your own differ each time. Ask for a demo and you get a quote with it.
Is Binadit ISO 27001 or NEN 7510 certified?
The data centre we host in is ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 certified. Binadit itself, as a company, does not hold these certifications. If your own certification requires a certified supplier rather than a certified data centre, tell us before you decide, so you can check that with your auditor first.

Plan your exit from Cryptshare.

30-minute scoping call. We map your stack against EU-only alternatives, estimate the migration effort, and tell you whether it is the right call.