How Do You Share Passwords Securely? (2026/784)

Episode number 784, it is Walkthrough Wednesday, and I wanna talk about sharing passwords and sensitive information securely.

And I've put it in, in double quotes and inverted commas, whatever you wanna call it, in quotes, because you can only be so secure online, and if it's really that sensitive, don't go sharing it online.

First qu- first part.

However, [laughs] there are times that we need to pass over sensitive data and sensitive information, and we don't wanna send it in an email.

We don't wanna, uh, put it into a help desk ticket.

[sighs] And whilst I talk a lot about using password managers to share information with your team and your clients, sometimes that's a real pain in the neck, and I will ack- I'm the first one to acknowledge that, or I'm one of the first to acknowledge that.

Even as much as I love Zoho Vault and the fact that it lets me share passwords with people, pass cards with people, I still run into the thing that, you know, you can only allow, you can only share a pass card for up to 24 hours and then it expires.

Which means that if your client is busy, or the person you're sharing it with is busy, or they miss the email and they get to it a bit late, it's too late.

You've got to re-share that pass card to them.

You've got to give them a new encryption code to go and access it.

[sighs] Cats and dogs living together, all of those things.

[laughs] It, it, it's, it, it can be a real production.

I d- I mean, down to the fact that sometimes I will say to them, "Are you ready? I'm gonna send it to you now." Send it through to them, and then they get distracted and they get to it and it's too late, and we've got to do it all again.

So yeah, I get it.

I get that, that sometimes password managers don't quite...

What's that term? Cut the mustard.

So I wanna talk to you about a thing called One-Time Secrets.

R- yeah, a, a service called One-Time Secrets.

It was onetimesecrets.com.

Uh, they ga- put out some software recently, I don't know how long ago.

Uh, but now people like me can actually run that up on our servers and offer that as a, as a white label service on our servers.

So I have just set up a One-Time Secret tool for you guys to use.

I'm gonna walk through it, show you how to use it, talk about why, why we wanna be using One-Time Secrets, and how we can use One-Time Secrets.

So that's what today's episode is.