VoltShare Security and Sharing

• If you have an existing F5® Distributed Cloud Services account:

  • Enter you email.

  • Enter your password.

• Click Sign-up if you do not have an existing Distributed Cloud Services account.

• For individuals, select one of the following options:

  • Click Google to sign-up and sign-in using your existing Google account.

  • Click GitHub to sign-up and sign-in using your existing GitHub account.

  • Click Microsoft to sign-up and sign-in using your existing Microsoft account.

• For enterprise teams, enter your domain and log in using account credentials.

Note: The email address and authentication mechanism ensures that only the owner of the account is able to decrypt content sent to that account.

Upon successful verification, you can sign-in and perform operations, such as profile update, encrypt, and decrypt information.

Note: During or after the verification process, you can secure your account using functionalities, such as device verification code and multi-factor authentication.

• Log into VoltShare and select the File or Text option. This example shows the Text option.

• Type the required information and click Encrypt.

Note: If you select the File option, drag and drop your file in the area indicated on the application user interface.

Enter a name for your secret in the Name field and enter email addresses for the recipients in the Access field.

Note: Optionally, select Share with team users checkbox to share the encrypted information with your team.

• Enter a value in the Valid for field and select one of the Day, Week, Month, or Year options to set the validity period for decryption keys.
• Click Next.

Note: After the duration expires, the recipient will be unable to decrypt the information.

After encryption, the application displays two output options. To share the encrypted information:

• Click Copy to clipboard to copy the encrypted information to then share in a messaging channel or paste it into an email.

• Click Save as... to save the encrypted information into a file.

• Click Share with to share in with an email, WhatsApp, or Telegram.

• Click Start Over to cancel the encrypted text and begin entering new text or attaching folders.

The email address you use for your sign-in must match the email address specified by the sender during the encryption process.

• Select File or Text option in the Encrypt/Decrypt screen and drop the received encrypted file or copy the encrypted content.

• Click Decrypt.

VoltShare decrypts and displays the content in the Decrypted text field.

• Click Copy to clipboard to store the decrypted information to the clipboard.

• Click Save as... and save the decrypted information into a file.