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Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links

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Post by icebraining »

mxuribe wrote: post #15
tyingq wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I only recently learned of wasabi (I think it was Leo Laporte's Twit podcast)...and beyond the nicer price points, seems to be compatible with AWS...so, if i read things right, one could somewhat/more easily switch between aws and wasabi - avoiding the dreaded vendor lock. If that's true, that's pretty neat. Disclaimer: i have no direct experience with wasabi, nor am i affiliated with them at all.

The S3 api has become a bit of an informal standard. You can even host your own with something like Minio.

Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links

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Post by uncled1023 »

jesseb wrote: post #18
uncled1023 wrote: post #17

So one thing, it mentions that it is JS dependence free. How are you encrypting the files client side then? If you are encrypting the files server side, then that is NOT E2E encryption.

There are JavaScript files in the GitHub repository, so I'm going to assume they mean third-party dependencies, but some more clarification would be nice. There is a file called cipher.js with encrypt and decrypt functions https://github.com/countable-web/cryptsend/blob/develop/publ...

Yea, and I just noticed it downloading a bunch when visiting the page. So it's probably safe to assume they mean 3rd Party.

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Post by JepZ »

codetrotter wrote: post #8
gprasanth wrote: post #7

I'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!

Recently I have become a fan of the Hetzner Cloud:

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud?country=us

I don't know how competitive their prices are, but I like their easy to use interface which is complemented by and also easy to use API.

Adding a 7-day automatic backup history is just a matter of about two clicks, and the additional costs seem reasonable to me.

Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links

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Post by tossimba »

gprasanth wrote: post #7

I'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…

I previously considered the idea of creating a cloud storage solution where customers are only billed for what they use. This was spurred by looking at dropbox's $10/mo plan for 1TB of storage. But I decided against it.

Storage is already free for the average user. 15GB with Google is enough. If you want more, the option is there and not that expensive. $2/mo for 100GB. I see no reason why a consumer would switch to my lesser-known service to save $1/mo. $1 is nothing. So my market would be users that store a lot of data. In that case, $10/mo for 1TB doesn't seem all that bad. Anymore than 1TB, customers probably have a bit of technical knowledge and may aswell store it themselves.

This market is already extremely saturated. Every single big tech name has a part of it.

Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links

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Post by m-p-3 »

rhblake wrote: post #10
luizfzs wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Thanks for sharing! Looks like I'll use one of my VPS for that.

Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links

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Post by prophesi »

madmaniak wrote: post #4

If the key is attached in link it also should be passed secure way, which is not usually.

Yeah, the best solution I've found was Sharelock[0], but I couldn't for the life of me self-host the app without weird errors cropping up. It's also not free if you want more than one social sign-in via Auth0.

[0]: https://sharelock.io/about

Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links

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Post by ayushgta »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #16
mafuyu wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, hadn't heard of Wasabi before. The storage pricing is comparable with B2, but no egress charges is nice. Any have experience with this provider?

So after reading their pricing FAQ, it looks like you are billed for a minimum of 1TB, and every file is billed for 90 days minimum. Based on their calculations, if you plan on storing files for more 16 days, it will be marginally cheaper than S3, but if you plan on keeping files around longer than 90 days, it is ~5x cheaper than S3.

Interesting, in that case, it likely makes a wasabi a good choice for Arq (https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150015...)

Re: Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links

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Post by grezql »

prophesi wrote: post #27
madmaniak wrote: post #4

If the key is attached in link it also should be passed secure way, which is not usually.

Yeah, the best solution I've found was Sharelock[0], but I couldn't for the life of me self-host the app without weird errors cropping up. It's also not free if you want more than one social sign-in via Auth0. [0]: https://sharelock.io/about

it require login with fb, google, twitter or MS. this does not solve the problem with secure key exchange
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