Sharing environment variables during a quick project hand-off shouldn't require setting up a heavy enterprise vault like Doppler or Infisical. But it also shouldn't mean copy-pasting plaintext API keys into Slack or Discord.
I wanted a frictionless, terminal-native bridge. So I built share-env: an ephemeral, peer-to-peer CLI for securely sharing .env files.
Here is exactly how it is architected under the hood:
True Zero-Knowledge E2E Encryption
Files are encrypted entirely locally using Node's native crypto module (AES-256-GCM). The decryption key is passed via a hash fragment in the generated share code (e.g., blue-sky-rocket#a1b2c3d4). The relay server receives the ciphertext, but the hex key after the # never leaves your local machine.
