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However no-one mentioned a super simple service: https://wetransfer.com/ - Simple as drag & drop, enter recipient address, SEND. Pretty simple if you want non techie to send you something.
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GPG is just not a very good tool. I think 'tptacek explained it quite well in the article I linked. With that said, Magic Wormhole is also a very good tool for transferring files. It will encrypt in transit. So for many files, using a separate encryption tool is not necessary. (So far I haven’t tried it for large files.)
What no one seems to mention is that Magic Wormhole depends on the maintainer's server to negotiate transmission between clients. I don't like that requirement. Better to GPG encrypt and use bittorrent for a direct transfer. At least then we're using public trackers instead of some private server.
With trackers, you're revealing the fact-of-transmission, transmission-size, & endpoints to any number of unknown remote parties. Potentially, attackers not even on the privileged network-path from origin to destination could tee off a copy of your encrypted data for offline analysis.
With Magic Wormhole's rendezvous-server, only one server, run by the same person whose code you're trusting (& can audit), briefly relays encrypted control-messages. (It might even be limited in its ability to deduce the size of the transfer – I'm not sure.) And if that's still too much, you can run your own rendezvous server.
It seems to me the amount of information leaked in the BT Tracker approach is strictly (& perhaps massively) more, to more entities, than that leaked in using the Wormhole author's server.
If it is above 50G and on my personal computer, I encrypt the data and then physically mail a USB stick with the data on it. Trying to arrange the downloading/uploading of 50G of data from my personal computer to another personal computer is a real pain. The people that I would send/receive that much data to/from, that is stored on my personal computer are usually people who don't know much about ftp, scp or easily sharing files over the Internet. Sending a USB stick is just so much easier and in many cases, faster. I make sure the recipients know how to decrypt the data before sending the data.
If it is on a server (For example, a side project instance in AWS), then I drop it into S3 bucket, export it and send the URL to the recipient. I just eat the cost of them downloading it. Usually I am making money off the work anyways, so it is the cost of doing business.
For local network:
I use miniserve ( https://github.com/svenstaro/miniserve ) which is just a simple http server. There are similar tools for when I want to share it from the smartphone.
Through the internet it really varies:
Sometimes it is Firefox send ( https://send.firefox.com/ )
For photos, I use a self hosted photo solution piwigo ( https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo )
In earlier days it has been a self hosted nextcloud ( https://github.com/nextcloud/server ) instance. I still use it when the files are getting too large for Firefox send.
I also tried the already mentioned wormhole but this works only with tec ppl.
Usually a local HTTP server. But I've wondered before if binary data could be encoded in to a video file and then uploaded to youtube or some other video service...
Though it should be possible to do what you described with 16MP pictures and upload them to google drive. Those won't be compressed according to someone under that LTT video where they abuse 5 business accounts for their backup.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
GPG is just not a very good tool. I think 'tptacek explained it quite well in the article I linked. With that said, Magic Wormhole is also a very good tool for transferring files. It will encrypt in transit. So for many files, using a separate encryption tool is not necessary. (So far I haven’t tried it for large files.)
What no one seems to mention is that Magic Wormhole depends on the maintainer's server to negotiate transmission between clients. I don't like that requirement. Better to GPG encrypt and use bittorrent for a direct transfer. At least then we're using public trackers instead of some private server.
Private Nextcloud. Or some free tier OneDrive/alternative is enought for me. However no-one mentioned a super simple service: https://wetransfer.com/ - Simple as drag & drop, enter recipient address, SEND. Pretty simple if you want non techie to send you something.
A dead simple UI and a link is nicely emailed to the receiver.
A station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway...
We laugh, but even Amazon has realized sometimes literally driving drives is the cheapest and fastest way to move serious amounts of data: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
https://cloud.google.com/transfer-appliance/
There's an amusing infographic towards the bottom. Only 42 days!