Related: If you need to transfer sensitive data over Bittorent, Age is a good tool for encrypting it before transmission.
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#12SFTP Chroot server. lftp client using mirror subsystem + sftp. It is multi-threaded, even for a single file and supports rsync like behavior even in sftp chroot. I can max out any internet link using lftp (client) + sftp (protocol).
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#13USPS
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#14A station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway...
No one makes station wagons anymore, except luxury european makers :(
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#15I self-host a Nextcloud instance. If it's too big for a browser download, Bittorrent is the way to go.
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#16as a game of thrones fan:
a raven with a sufficient large micro-sd card ;)
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#17Related: If you need to transfer sensitive data over Bittorent, Age is a good tool for encrypting it before transmission. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
Why a new tool? How is this better than gpg symmetric encryption, considering gpg is installed/available effectively everywhere?
Encrypt:
gpg --symmetric file.dat
(enter a password)
gpg --decrypt file.dat.gpg > file.dat
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#18A station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway...
We laugh, but even Amazon has realized sometimes literally driving drives is the cheapest and fastest way to move serious amounts of data: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
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#19Related: If you need to transfer sensitive data over Bittorent, Age is a good tool for encrypting it before transmission. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
Why a new tool? How is this better than gpg symmetric encryption, considering gpg is installed/available effectively everywhere? Encrypt: gpg --symmetric file.dat (enter a password) Decrypt: gpg --decrypt file.dat.gpg > file.dat (enter the password)
IMO, GPG is simply not a good tool and it should be replaced.
Others have said it better than I can. See e.g. https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why a new tool? How is this better than gpg symmetric encryption, considering gpg is installed/available effectively everywhere? Encrypt: gpg --symmetric file.dat (enter a password) Decrypt: gpg --decrypt file.dat.gpg > file.dat (enter the password)
IMO, GPG is simply not a good tool and it should be replaced. Others have said it better than I can. See e.g. https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
That's said often about any tool which has been around long enough. People without experience come around and think they can replace an old tool with a better one, but it's usually only ignorance of either the complexity of the task, knowledge of using the tool properly, or both.