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You can instead save it as a self-decrypting document, attaching it to email, copy to thumbdrive, upload dropbox, etc.
It really is a shame that there still isn't a easy way (A person whose computer knowledge extends to using facebook), that I know of, of sending arbitrarily large files that isn't tethered to a specific cloud service and is also reliable (can tolerate connection dropping). It seems that bitorrent protocols are pretty close, but I don't think there is a seamless client that allows for "magical" point to point transact…
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14649727
It really is a shame that there still isn't a easy way (A person whose computer knowledge extends to using facebook), that I know of, of sending arbitrarily large files that isn't tethered to a specific cloud service and is also reliable (can tolerate connection dropping). It seems that bitorrent protocols are pretty close, but I don't think there is a seamless client that allows for "magical" point to point transact…
You're at a computer. You need to connect to another computer. First you need to know a route to that computer. If it has an externally reachable IP address and you know that, then great. If it has an externally reachable IP address and a DNS entry and you know _that_, then also great. If you don't know the IP address or domain name of the other computer then you'll have to do some kind of lookup/exchange to find it.…
I think the GNUnet has some stuff in it which can even work across different protocols, e.g. hopping across TCP/IP over Ethernet to Bluetooth to packet radio. It has some neat stuff where, as I recall, it probes out a random path, then tries to get at its intended destination, remembering successful attempts. It definitely sounds cool, but it's not currently in an end-user-usable state.
It really is a shame that there still isn't a easy way (A person whose computer knowledge extends to using facebook), that I know of, of sending arbitrarily large files that isn't tethered to a specific cloud service and is also reliable (can tolerate connection dropping). It seems that bitorrent protocols are pretty close, but I don't think there is a seamless client that allows for "magical" point to point transact…
Even if both parties are behind a firewall that won't respect UPnP, there's UDP hole punching which should usually work. Mozilla would just need to host a server to handle the port number handoffs.
I imagine this would handle 90% of the use cases. The rest would use traditional 3rd party hosting, IM transfers, email, etc.
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That's a protocol. Not a software.
You must be great at parties. Software is irrelevant imo. Indicating same protocol as FF send is imho more relevant.
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The key is the hash, which isn't sent over the wire when loading a page. Now granted it's accessible via location.hash in the client, but one has to trust Mozilla not to do that.
> one has to trust Mozilla not to do that. Exactly. One has to trust Mozilla every time one visits the page . They could easily configure it to be malicious one time out of a million (say); what are the odds that they would be caught? Web-page-based crypto is fundamentally insecure, and Mozilla is committing an extremely grave error in encouraging users to trust it (as they also do with their Firefox Accounts). Secur…
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So, three systems which all require a central service?
Those services are for the initial peer discovery and SDP exchange, which can be done by other means (using any other side-channel). Ongoing work is happening, for example by the webtorrent folks, to remove this constraint.
It really is a shame that there still isn't a easy way (A person whose computer knowledge extends to using facebook), that I know of, of sending arbitrarily large files that isn't tethered to a specific cloud service and is also reliable (can tolerate connection dropping). It seems that bitorrent protocols are pretty close, but I don't think there is a seamless client that allows for "magical" point to point transact…