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How secure is this?
THIS PROJECT IS STILL IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT, USES EXPERIMENTAL CRYPTOGRAPHIC LIBRARIES, AND HAS NOT HAD ANY KIND OF SECURITY OR CRYPTOGRAPHY REVIEWS. IT MIGHT BE BROKEN AND UNSAFE.
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" but these seem to be relatively rare nowadays " AT&T 5G uses Symmetric NAT. It's not rare if you have an iPhone or iPad with cellular. No way to do P2P without relaying traffic unless you want to "guess" the randomized port number, and, on that front, there are NAT-device-aware algorithms that can make that process faster. We were promised IPv6 will make NAT's not necessary but I believe service providers use NATs…
It's amazing what would be possible if NAT wasn't a thing. We will get there. Someday.
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Also security: if consumer PCs were open to the internet, they would be constantly getting breached in even bigger numbers.
Consumer PCs are not the real issue by and large, IoT crap that can't even be updated is way more problematic. Having NAT by default helps screen out attacks to those devices.
It'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, com…
But yes, I think there is a massive gap in knowledge here. It's apparent that a lot of the students aren't really interested in CS, just trying to get a degree and a solid job. I think with the competitiveness of college these days kids have lost the freedom to be curious or actually learn about the things that interest them.
I also think there's a wide divide in the quality of teachers, and its a well known problem among the department.
What makes this really interesting to me is that it uses a golang implementation of WebRTC on the server side. When I was playing with multiplayer networking in the browser ~1.5yr ago, there really didn't seem to be a lot of options for WebRTC servers. Great to see some progress here. Also, it sounds like it's using streaming rather than loading the entire file, which would give it an advantage over https://file.pizz…
Come on it didn't work with a 5.5GB file :P
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> The nice thing about WebRTC is this works (pretty much) everywhere! Someone could throw up Python/Android/iOS/Go/Web/C++ Clients really easily. Huh, what did I miss?! How do you make a WebRTC-client in language-of-your-choice? The last time I checked for C++ I only found answers like "look at the chrome source". lol.
Things have changed (alot!) the last two years have seen a couple implementations come around. * https://github.com/pion/webrtc * https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc * https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/webrtc/index... * https://github.com/rawrtc/rawrtc
Where be at the Node.js verzhun?
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Also didn't work for me on Firefox/Linux, between 2 tabs.
Hmm, maybe this is a classic "didn't bother testing on Firefox" situation. I wonder if anyone on a different OS can confirm.
What makes this really interesting to me is that it uses a golang implementation of WebRTC on the server side. When I was playing with multiplayer networking in the browser ~1.5yr ago, there really didn't seem to be a lot of options for WebRTC servers. Great to see some progress here. Also, it sounds like it's using streaming rather than loading the entire file, which would give it an advantage over https://file.pizz…
thoughts on send.firefox.com?
#sender
curl https://patchbay.pub/anders/file.bin --data-binary @file.bin
#receiver
curl https://patchbay.pub/anders/file.bin > file.bin