Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links
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#2Is there any advantage to this over https://send.firefox.com/ ?
Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links
#3Hi.
Thank you for your work, this will be useful.
However, the `Get folder link` does not work. Is it deactivated for now ?
Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links
#4If the key is attached in link it also should be passed secure way, which is not usually.
Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links
#5Tempted to make a version of this myself because it's simple. Single file executable, with statically linked Tor, that starts a v3 onion service (with or without client auth), hosts web server with file at URL, gives onion address URL (and client auth if any, could include the as part of URL or URL fragment or whatever depending upon approach desired). Client can use exe or Tor Browser to download it. Could add any features you want such as killing the server after first download, deadlines, etc.
Pro: doesn't upload to server and preserves anonymity. Con: slower than non-anonymous.
Here's a simple code example of a v2 onion file server using external Tor process w/ no auth: https://github.com/cretz/bine#example. This is essentially what onionshare does: https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare.
Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links
#6Is there any advantage to this over https://send.firefox.com/ ?
The first thing that come to mind is that you can self-host cryptsend, while it doesnt seem to be possible to self-host send.firefox.com
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#7I've recently analysed pricing of various storage providers when thinking of building a side project, and I was surprised at how costly the services were.
S3, Drive, Dropbox, Spaces, B2, Box, several Object Storage solutions. Some cases storage was cheap, but the transfer was costly. Everything seemed costly for the simple use case of providing an end user 10GB monthly upload + ~50GB bandwidth at low cost.
A vps with additional storage seemed to be the ~better~ most feasible solution to me.
This sounds like a terrific thing to host on a vps.
Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links
#8I've recently analysed pricing of various storage providers when thinking of building a side project, and I was surprised at how costly the services were. S3, Drive, Dropbox, Spaces, B2, Box, several Object Storage solutions. Some cases storage was cheap, but the transfer was costly. Everything seemed costly for the simple use case of providing an end user 10GB monthly upload + ~50GB bandwidth at low cost. A vps with…
> This sounds like a terrific thing to host on a vps.
Just make sure your provider has backup and redundancy in place for the data storage.
Imagine waking up to total loss of data for all of your customers. Ouch!
Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links
#9I've recently analysed pricing of various storage providers when thinking of building a side project, and I was surprised at how costly the services were. S3, Drive, Dropbox, Spaces, B2, Box, several Object Storage solutions. Some cases storage was cheap, but the transfer was costly. Everything seemed costly for the simple use case of providing an end user 10GB monthly upload + ~50GB bandwidth at low cost. A vps with…
wasabi.com might be worth looking into. $.0049 per GB/month, no egress charges.
That's roughly $5/month for 1TB, which probably beats doing this on a VPS.
Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links
#10Is there any advantage to this over https://send.firefox.com/ ?
The first thing that come to mind is that you can self-host cryptsend, while it doesnt seem to be possible to self-host send.firefox.com
You can indeed self-host Firefox Send: https://github.com/mozilla/send