End to end encrypted browser chat on Vaults.lol

Vaults.lol ships a private, end-to-end encrypted chat feature inside the dashboard at vaults.lol/dashboard/chats. It is a real messenger built into a link in bio tool: create a room, share a random 6 character key, and talk in real time. Messages, replies, reactions and files transfer directly between the browsers in the room over WebRTC. If you have been searching for an end to end encrypted chat website or asking is there a link in bio tool with chats, this is exactly that.

End to end encryption means the messages are encrypted on the sender's device and only decrypted on the recipient's device. The service in the middle cannot read them. Vaults.lol chats use WebRTC with DTLS/SRTP, which is end-to-end encrypted between the browsers in the room. The keys are held by the peers, not by our servers.

Our signalling server helps two browsers introduce themselves so they can connect. It sees that a connection is being negotiated. It does not see message content, files, replies or reactions. Nothing about a live chat is written to our database. Close the last tab and the room stops existing.

Because chats are peer-to-peer, the two browsers open a direct connection to each other, which is the entire point of not routing your messages through a central server. That handshake, by design of WebRTC (the standard used by every browser video call, Google Meet, Discord voice, and so on), exposes each side's public IP address to the other peer. This is not a Vaults.lol implementation choice, it is how peer-to-peer works. The only way to hide IPs would be to relay every message through a third-party TURN server, which would also mean paying per gigabyte for someone else to sit in the middle of your traffic, which is exactly the model we are trying to avoid. Only share a room key with people you are comfortable connecting to directly. If you need IP-level anonymity, use a VPN on your side before joining a room.

Chat Control 1.0 and the follow up Chat Control 2.0 both aim at one thing, message servers. Client-side scanning, backdoored end to end encryption, mandatory content hashing, they all assume there is a central mailbox holding your plaintext. Vaults.lol chats do not have that mailbox. Peers talk to each other directly over an encrypted channel and the room ends when the last tab closes. If you are looking at how to avoid Chat Control style scanning for casual private group chats, an ephemeral peer-to-peer room is one of the cleanest answers. This is not legal advice, just how the architecture works.

1) Sign in with a Vaults.lol account on Lifetime (€5 one time) or Supporter. 2) Open vaults.lol/dashboard/chats. 3) Click Create Room. 4) Share the 6 character key with the people you want in the room. Anyone else with a Premium Vaults account can paste the key and join. Everyone talks in real time, browser to browser.

Anyone who wants a private group chat with friends without installing an app, without giving a phone number, and without leaving a message history on some company's server. It is not marketed as a replacement for hardened messengers like Signal for high-risk threat models, but for normal private group chats between people who trust each other, it is one of the easiest end-to-end encrypted browser chat options around, and it lives inside your link in bio page so your audience always knows where to find you.

Vaults.lol chats are not a public chat room, not a discovery feed, not a Discord replacement, not a permanent group. They are private, session based, invite only. When the last person closes the tab, the room ends. There is no message archive to search or restore.

Privacy does not change the rules. Vaults.lol chats cannot be used for illegal content, exploitation, harassment, scams, malware, threats or abuse. Rooms found or reported to be used for that will be blocked and reported to the appropriate authorities where the law requires it.