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

[whatl3y]

https://github.com/whatl3y/txr

[O_H_E]

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

[whatl3y → O_H_E]

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.

[zzo38computer]

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.

[cryo]

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

[whatl3y → cryo]

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).

[cryo → whatl3y]

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