WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC
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WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC
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Re: WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC
#2I love that it uses chunks and streaming to transfer the file. So many of these just try and load the entire file at once so you can’t transfer much.
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#3Interesting note that this guy's choice of PAKE, Cpace, was chosen about a week ago by the CFRG for use in IETF protocols. Cpace is new, but that's a big vote of confidence for it.
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#4file.pizza is another similar project
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#5This is fantastic! Really nice work :)
The nice thing about WebRTC is this works (pretty much) everywhere! Someone could throw up Python/Android/iOS/Go/Web/C++ Clients really easily. That is really exciting.
Also just a HUGE fan of NAT Traversal/P2P in general. The less dependence we can have on others for sharing our data the better.
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#6It is annoying that it removes the ID from the URL. It would be nice to bookmark my own code and I can just open it on multiple devices whenever I want to transfer a file. However I need to do a bit of gymnastics with the QR code to grab the URL.
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#7We need a distributed db based on webrtc
Re: WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC
#8Interesting note that this guy's choice of PAKE, Cpace, was chosen about a week ago by the CFRG for use in IETF protocols. Cpace is new, but that's a big vote of confidence for it.
Nice spot, here's a link to the IETF draft spec for CPace mentioned.
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-haase-cpace-01.html
IETF post announcing the chosen candidates
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/LKbwodpa5yXo6VuND...
Candidate selection process
Re: WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC
#9We need a distributed db based on webrtc
Checkout gundb
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#10It's 2020, and people are elated to discover that it is possible to transfer a file directly between two systems on the Internet.
True story: I was giving a guest lecture on network virtualization at UCI and demoing ZeroTier. One student came up afterwords and asked me how traffic could flow between systems without "a cloud." Evidently the idea that data could just go directly from point A to point B was utterly, completely foreign to the point that they weren't aware that the Internet could be used this way.