Croc has broke down for me quite a few times when transferring large files. I switched back to MW.
Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
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Re: Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
#12Sounds like Magic Wormhole ( https://magic-wormhole.io/ ). The readme acknowledges Warner at the end. Key differences seem to be resumable transfers and proxy support. Another is a single binary, whereas MW is in Python, but there’s now https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole.rs I appreciate that the project acknowledges its inspiration. I wish it were more common for projects to provide detailed comparisons…
I’ve found croc to be more reliable than MW in across different network architectures — croc has worked in places where MW has not. I’m not sure why.
Hm. I had the exact opposite experience. Weird.
Re: Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
#13one thing that gets me is this should be one of the most basic tasks between two machines and it has been increasingly, systematically abstracted from us, to control what channels it goes through, if it even goes through at all. so kudos to this app but this should be easy at an OS level and it isn't, by design. likely for the same reason airdrop is not a thing in china
If you have IPv6, it’s easy. In IPv4 land… Good luck.
Re: Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
#14I keep a list of mostly browser based and some cli, p2p file sending tools in like croc. https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/fd6e275e44009b72f64d0570...
Re: Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
#15What does this give me that unison doesn't?
Re: Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
#16What does this give me that unison doesn't?
Unison is dead, this project is alive.
Re: Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
#17this has been fine working since the 80s
pc1> tar c | nc -l 12345
pc2> nc 12345 | tar xv -C Re: Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
#18this has been fine working since the 80s pc1> tar c | nc -l 12345 pc2> nc 12345 | tar xv -C
No auth? I like to live dangerously too lol.
Jokes aside, the probability of it being exploited is low though.
Also, this assumes pc1 has a publicly, where as with Croc and MW, you can transfer files between two PCs on both behind different NATs.
Re: Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
#19How can one be sure that the relay does not record all the data flowing through it? There's not a second independent channel where the key is exchanged between sender and receiver.
Re: Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers
#20What does this give me that unison doesn't?
Unison is dead, this project is alive.
I mean i still see commits and afaict it just works for me. How much active development does a service like this need?
As someone else mentioned a while ago, I think unison suffers from 'lisp curse'.. it just works. [0]