You can use Dashlane's secure sharing feature to share passwords and Secure Notes with other people who use Dashlane. You can share with one person or multiple people and groups.
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Secure sharing in Dashlane
Unlike emails and text messages, Dashlane's Sharing Center is a secure way to share data.
When you share a password or sensitive information by email, the email provider copies the plain text data to these locations:
- The Sent folder in your email provider's inbox
- The Sent folder on all other devices connected to your inbox
- Your email provider's servers
- Your recipient’s email provider's servers which may include several different locations and data centers
- Your recipient’s computers or devices
Instant messaging apps also aren't secure. Your data is sent in plain text over the network, and the service often saves your conversations in the application history.
Dashlane's secure sharing feature encrypts your data with the best encryption system available before the data is sent over the internet.
Share your data
You have two ways to share your data with another person with Dashlane:
From the item you want to share
You can share Passwords and Secure Notes directly from the item.
- Find the item in the Passwords or Secure Notes sections of your Dashlane app.
- For Passwords, select Share Password. For Secure Notes, select the Share icon, shown as a person with a curved arrow.
- Enter the Dashlane email address of the person you want to share with.
- Select one of two permission settings: Full rights and Limited rights.
- Full rights: The recipient can see, use, edit, and share the password. The recipient can also edit sharing rights. The recipient can revoke the sharing rights of other people who have shared this item, including you.
- Limited rights: The recipient can use this password but can't share it or edit its sharing rights. The recipient can't modify the password directly within Dashlane. However, if you or the recipient change the password outside of Dashlane, Dashlane will update the password. Within Dashlane, you see the password as a series of dots. Remember that these dots only hide the password from a casual or accidental observer. A determined, technically savvy recipient can reveal the password.
- Select Send.
After you've shared an item, the recipient receives an email from Dashlane and an alert in the Sharing Center to accept access to this item.
From the Sharing Center
You can share passwords and Secure Notes from the Sharing Center.
- To open the Sharing Center, select Sharing.
- Select a contact you've previously shared data with or select the + icon to create a new share.
- Select one or more items that you want to share and then select Next.
- Enter the Dashlane email address of the person you want to share with and select the permissions. Choose between two permission settings: Full rights and Limited rights.
- Full rights: The recipient can see, use, edit, and share the password. The recipient can also edit sharing rights. The recipient can revoke the sharing rights of other people who have shared this item, including you.
- Limited rights: The recipient can use this password but can't share it or edit its sharing rights. The recipient can't modify the password directly within Dashlane. However, if you or the recipient change the password outside of Dashlane, Dashlane will update the password. Within Dashlane, you see the password as a series of dots. Remember that these dots only hide the password from a casual or accidental observer. A determined, technically savvy recipient can reveal the password.
- Select Send.
After you've shared an item, the recipient receives an email from Dashlane and receive an alert in the Sharing Center to accept access to this item.
Do I need to have a paid subscription to share?
No, you don't need to have a paid subscription to use Dashlane's sharing feature. However, if you use the Free version of Dashlane, you can share a maximum of five items with each person. For example, if you share two items with someone and that person shares three items with you, you both meet the maximum of five items per person.
To access unlimited sharing, you need to upgrade to one of our paid plans.
Security and privacy
For each person who uses Dashlane, we create two items:
- A unique public key that is saved to Dashlane's servers
Dashlane uses this public key to encrypt the data when you share an item—known as asymmetric encryption.
- A unique private key that is saved to your Dashlane account and encrypted in your Dashlane settings
Only you know this key, which is never shared or transmitted to others. Dashlane syncs your account settings across all devices.
Dashlane uses this private key exclusively to decrypt data. Note that your private key is different from your Master Password.
Dashlane encrypts your private key with your Master Password and stores it with your Dashlane account settings along with all of your other saved sensitive data. This private key syncs to other devices the same way encrypted data syncs. We never send your Master Password over the internet.
Both keys are generated together and meant to work together because they work in only one direction. One can never be used to replace the other.
Even with access to your public key, a person still needs access to the private key for the decryption to take place. Shared data is encrypted with the recipient's public key, but it can't be decrypted with the public key.