Show HN: Send files from one computer/server to another hilariously easily(github.com)

5 pointsby whatl3yvor 6 Jahren6 comments

Show HN: Send files from one computer/server to another hilariously easily

https://github.com/whatl3y/txr

6 comments

O_H_Evor 6 Jahren

It is great that you are practicing and actully got something running.

If you want to look for inspiration from an established tool, check out wormhole. Their UX is extremely simple.

https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html

whatl3yvor 6 Jahren

Wow this is excellent, it looks like we were inspired by the same problem and had very similar solutions. I should've known a tool like this existed somewhere, I just didn't look hard enough :). Either way I'm pretty happy with the output of node-txr even if I could've used wormhole without needing to build it.

zzo38computervor 6 Jahren

If you do not need the features of this program, then you could just use "tar | nc" for sending and "nc | tar" for receiving, I suppose.

cryovor 6 Jahren

Is this end-to-end encrypted or can the server read all transferred data?

whatl3yvor 6 Jahren

As of today the server could read all data, but I believe wouldn't be a huge lift to implement E2E encryption with SSH or PGP keys (or something similar).

cryovor 6 Jahren

Yeah PGP might be an option, perhaps it can be used via stdin/stdout pipes to make it an optional dependency.