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4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely

itsfoss.com 4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely

These tools let you share large files over the internet.

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Sad not to see file.pizza

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- Didn't know about that one. Why, there's no objection in adding more to the collection right here. 😊
  
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  I'm definitely here for more alternatives as well (and because I haven't yet figured out how to save a post without commenting)
  
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- Don't be so sad, the list is shit.
  
  I like drop.lol
  
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  As someone wanting to share large files, what is your suggestion?
  
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  Yea I have my own list with over a hundred of these sites.
  
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- Permanently Deleted
  
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- I can't find anything on that site that talks about how it works. That's disappointing.
  
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  "Fork Us" button goes right to the github repo.
  
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Me and a buddy just set up syncthing and use that when we need to do this and don't want in third parties involved. Turn it off when you are done.

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- I use resilio sync across my work and personal phones and I use it to backup my phones to my nas. No need to turn it on/off, it's accessible only via secret key or shared link and it's encrypted.
  
  I know sync isn't foss but it's the best one I've found over the years and it just works.
  
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  Love resilio. Fantastic for travelling to quickly pull up your passport or visa or train tickets you reserved before. Just leave a computer running at home (like a home server).
  
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  What's the advantage over syncthing?
  
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- Yeah why wasn't syncthing on the list?
  
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No love for SwissTransfer from Infomaniak. Shame.

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- Didn't see the comment before posting
  
  Totally agree, swiss transfer is incredible but I thought its use was restricted to Switzerland?
  
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I do:

Wormhole.app: for smaller file transfers to people not tech savvy

Rsync: if the person is running an SSH server I can connect to

Bittorrent: pretty much anything else
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There's croc which looks very similar to magic-wormhole. Haven't used magic-wormhole so can't compare the two though.

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- @pro3757 @petsoi can confirm, croc is awesome.
  
  you can even use your own infrastructure as the midpoint.
  
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Magic Wormhole
Wormhole File Transfer (companion app)
iyox Wormhole (fork app)

OnionShare
OnionShare (companion app)

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I'm surprised Magic Wormhole wasn't on here. There's a gnome app for it called Warp and several android apps, all FOSS.

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Wormhole ftw

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I never see toffeeshare mentioned. P2P, encrypted, no size limit. Only problem is you can't send folders, only files, but that's easily solved with tarballs or RARs.

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BitTorrent

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Anyone have any objections or anything negative to say about snapdrop(dot)net besides maybe anyone on the same network could try to connect to you?

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- PairDrop(dot)net is a fork with a bit more features
  
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- snapdrop.net seems to go down all the time, I stopped using it a while ago and switched to LocalSend
  
  neither of them work over the internet though so they don't really fit the article
  
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Why isn't syncthing there? Is there something bad with it I'm not aware of amor are they just not aware of it?

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- I think because Syncthing isn't really for "sharing" files. It can move large files across the internet but it's not designed for "hey send me a copy of that blu-ray your ripped" sharing.
  
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If your swiss, just use swisstransfer.com. it's fast, supports up to 50gb of data, 500 transfers per day (and free!), more than you'll ever need. Although for security, they do say your filles are sent over https, but because they do not promote encryption I suppose they don't support that (although they do support password protected files).

So yeah, it's usually more than enough for most use cases, although I'd encrypt my files before sending them if they contain sensitive data, but that's rarely the case.

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Interesting to see wormhole mentioned as non open source. The protocol and its CLI tools are, probably the web interface and GUIs are not

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- Based on this reddit comment, that website is not affiliated with the magic-wormhole CLI tool
  
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scp cli app

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- Does scp resume broken transfers? If not, maybe rsync instead. Lots can go wrong for connectivity over the span of hours/days
  
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  You're right
  
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VPN server and any NAS or other network file share.

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@petsoi
none of the four
I only use:
https://drive.proton.me/
easy, secured, no need to have a proton account for others, links can be time limited
#protondrive #proton #teamProton

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Soulseek never stopped working.

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- Secure though? Is it end-to-end encrypted?
  
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  hahahahahahahahahahahahaha... no.
  
  but it does allow you to only share your files with a specific other user.
  
  however, it's explicitly not secure. It's literally from the Kazaa era of file transfer apps.
  
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