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Show HN: A file transfer tool for your local network (encrypted)

by egcodes on 5/4/17, 10:44 AM with 10 comments

• by api on 5/5/17, 1:05 AM

  Hilarious... I just put something up a little bit like this. It's something I started a while back and finished up this morning:

  https://github.com/zerotier/toss

  It must be the National Day of Command Line File Transfer Utilities.

• by fiatjaf on 5/4/17, 8:46 PM

  We're pretty much in need of tools like this. The alternative is to send the file to file sharing services in other countries then fetch them again from the other computer in the same LAN.

  But unfortunately this is still too cumbersome for my personal use cases, which involve Windows machines I don't personally use unless sporadically.

• by Vendan on 5/5/17, 2:29 AM

  One critique, this "encryption" is just "seed pseudorandom RNG with a shared int, and then xor each byte with the next value from the RNG". Not exactly a high quality encryption method.

• by stephenr on 5/5/17, 4:13 AM

  What does this do that scp/sftp doesn't?