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Magic Wormhole: https://magic-wormhole.io/ An easy and secure file transfer program. I use it almost everyday since I discovered it. Author has a very good video on it at pycon-2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFrTqQw0_3c

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wormhole-william[1] is a nice version in Go, compatible with the original version, with an easy to install release binary.

[1]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

I used to do some professional services work, and magic wormhole was one of the most reliable ways for me to get files to clients who's companies blocked traditional file sharing hosts like Dropbox and Google Drive.

Check out croc, I've been using it for years, and it works pretty great too!

https://github.com/schollz/croc

I moved from Croc to wormhole-william as the author of Croc has dodged a bunch of security-related questions in various issues and I didn't feel comfortable continuing to use it.

There was this fun little number a couple of years back https://redrocket.club/posts/croc/

Curious if there’s any web based implementation yet? I guess it’s more of a hassle to ask the receiving party to open up the sending session when you can just provide them an asynchronous link to a hosted file (Dropbox, mega, etc)

seems like its down

The docs can be used as a guide: https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html

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