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petsoi ( petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de )  to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely

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4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely

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petsoi ( petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de )  to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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These tools let you share large files over the internet.
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  • D_Air1 ( D_Air1@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Me and a buddy just set up syncthing and use that when we need to do this and don’t want in third parties involved. Turn it off when you are done.

    • delirious_owl ( delirious_owl@discuss.online ) 
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      Yeah why wasn’t syncthing on the list?

  • monoboy ( monoboy@lemmy.zip ) 
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    I do:

    • Wormhole.app: for smaller file transfers to people not tech savvy
    • Rsync: if the person is running an SSH server I can connect to
    • Bittorrent: pretty much anything else
  • SimonSaysStuff ( SimonSaysStuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    No love for SwissTransfer from Infomaniak. Shame.

  • pro3757 ( pro3757@programming.dev ) 
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    There’s croc which looks very similar to magic-wormhole. Haven’t used magic-wormhole so can’t compare the two though.

    • Magic Blue Smoke ( Smoke@frogdrool.net ) 
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      @pro3757 @petsoi can confirm, croc is awesome.

      you can even use your own infrastructure as the midpoint.

  • als ( als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    I’m surprised Magic Wormhole wasn’t on here. There’s a gnome app for it called Warp and several android apps, all FOSS.

  • claymore ( claymore@pawb.social ) 
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    I never see toffeeshare mentioned. P2P, encrypted, no size limit. Only problem is you can’t send folders, only files, but that’s easily solved with tarballs or RARs.

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    Why isn’t syncthing there? Is there something bad with it I’m not aware of amor are they just not aware of it?

  • Pantherina ( Pantherina@feddit.de ) 
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    Wormhole ftw

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky ( AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) 
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    Anyone have any objections or anything negative to say about snapdrop(dot)net besides maybe anyone on the same network could try to connect to you?

    • kib48 ( kib48@lemdro.id ) 
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      snapdrop.net seems to go down all the time, I stopped using it a while ago and switched to LocalSend

      neither of them work over the internet though so they don’t really fit the article

  • cymor ( cymor@midwest.social ) Banned from community
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    BitTorrent

  • Snot Flickerman ( SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    Soulseek never stopped working.

    • refalo ( refalo@programming.dev ) 
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      Secure though? Is it end-to-end encrypted?

      • Snot Flickerman ( SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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        hahahahahahahahahahahahaha… no.

        but it does allow you to only share your files with a specific other user.

        however, it’s explicitly not secure. It’s literally from the Kazaa era of file transfer apps.

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          Right, but the article explicitly mentions securely, so I thought those types of tools would be more relevant to recommend.

  • Phil ( Phil35@fosstodon.org ) 
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    @petsoi
    none of the four
    I only use:
    https://drive.proton.me/
    easy, secured, no need to have a proton account for others, links can be time limited
    #protondrive #proton #teamProton

  • Rivalarrival ( Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ) 
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    VPN server and any NAS or other network file share.

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