OnionShare – A Tool To Share Any Size Of Files Securely And Anonymously
'When we wrote an article about file sharing utilities such as Magic Womhole & transfer.sh most of the users asked is it secure? and where the files are stored. So, we decided to bring one of the best utility that stores and share files securely over the Internet. When we dig on that, we came to know about OnionShare which fulfill all this requirements. How are you saying, it falls under this category? Yes, it’s true because most of us know about Tor Browser which allows users to browse securely, privately and anonymously by implementing Onion routing in the application layer. Onion routing is a technique for anonymous communication over a computer network. OnionShare also developed in the same manner and allows you to use the Tor network to send files anywhere in the world.' -- source: https://www.2daygeek.com/onionshare-secure-way-to-share-files-sharing-tool-l... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 15:19:44 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
'When we wrote an article about file sharing utilities such as Magic Womhole & transfer.sh most of the users asked is it secure? and where the files are stored.'
I had this idea (never tested) that BitTorrent could be used as a point-to-point private file transfer protocol. * Put the file(s) you want to share into some suitable directory. * Create a .torrent file for the contents of that directory. * Start seeding. * Send the .torrent file to the intended recipient(s). * They start leeching off you. * Once they have each received a complete copy, you can stop seeding. The final step can take as long as needed, depending on the amount of data being transferred, and on the speed of your connection--minutes, hours, days, whatever. The data goes straight from your machine to theirs, without being stored on any intermediate server. If there is any break in the connection, the transfer will resume from where it left off once service is restored. Note that you do not publish your .torrent file anywhere--only selected people get a copy. If this informal level of “security” is not adequate, you can always encrypt the files, and only share the keys with your intended recipients via some suitably secure channel. One issue that I can think of is that the trackers you specify in the torrent may penalize your recipients if they cut off after having received their copy, without further seeding. This may or may not be a problem. Maybe DHT avoids this issue...
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