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Re: Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing

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Post by n2j3 » Sun, Oct 15, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

lwerdna wrote: post #276

n2j3 wrote: post #259

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Great implementation but doesn't work with Greek, spews out garbage. Here against original text in notepad.exe https://i.imgur.com/n1WCsnZ.png

If you have a chance, please try again. UTF-8 support is added.

It works, thanks!

Re: Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing

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Post by jhasse » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 7:48 PM UTC

galaxyLogic wrote: post #277

codebolt wrote: post #182

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Even then, you are trusting the app to do what it says it's going to do. The only way I feel 100% safe is encrypting the file manually before sending (through whatever platform), and sharing the key through some other medium (preferably word of mouth). As a Windows user I mostly use 7-zip for this purpose, or the encryption plugin in Notepad++ for text.

Why would you trust 7-zip or NotePad++ more than FireFox?

Because I don't trust Mozilla, see https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6mw1ld/firefox_track... or http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-tests-cliqz-engine-whic...

Re: Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing

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Post by QasimK » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 9:18 PM UTC

okanesen wrote: post #168

QasimK wrote: post #144

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There is no iOS app for Syncthing as far as I can tell

You can use fsync() [0] for that. [0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fsync/id964427882?mt=8

Thank you! So as it is available on iOS, I need to adjust my comment to reflect what I mean. There isn’t a free, open-source, community-driven implementation for iOS, keeping with the nature of the project.

Re: Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing

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Post by QasimK » Tue, Oct 17, 2017, 9:21 PM UTC

unhammer wrote: post #249

QasimK wrote: post #144

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There is no iOS app for Syncthing as far as I can tell

They're crowdfunding one: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/7699463-native-ios-port-... (There's also a closed-source iOS app called fsync(), but I found it too slow/unstable to use.)

That’s great to know, and I can see there has been quite a bit of discussion the topic. I’m glad I’m not the only one that was missing an open implementation for iOS.

Re: Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing

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Post by hnarn » Fri, Oct 20, 2017, 1:58 PM UTC

rebyn wrote: post #246

I've just uploaded a 140MB file from my mountain cabin (in Viet Nam) and it was lightning fast. I then gave the link to a friend of mine residing in Melbourne, Australia and his download speed was blazing fast as well. Would be keen to learn more about the infrastructure setup behind this service to achieve such a good performance.

Probably Amazon.