It uses relay-assisted peer-to-peer transactions and end-to-end encryption via password-authenticated key exchange. The program is written in Go and is available for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux and *BSD.
The idea behind croc is being able to transfer files and folders between cross-platform computers securely, fast and easy. With support for resumable, peer-to-peer transfers. As a bonus feature, croc is also able to securely transfer a short text or URL directly.
The data transfer is done using a relay, either using raw TCP sockets or websockets. When the sender and the receiver are on the same LAN, croc uses a local relay, otherwise a public relay is used. Thanks to this, croc can send files between computers in the same LAN, or over the Internet, without having port-forwarding enabled.
See https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/03/croc-is-tool-for-resumable-encrypted.html
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Use https://onionshare.org/ instead. It’s more secure, well known, available in many distributions.
This doesn’t seem to be p2p though
Why ?
Why to which point?
here i did a video on it https://youtu.be/hNxW1xkB4FY
Video is worth 100,000 words thanks
Been using
crocfor some time now, it’s great. Especially useful for transferring files between my pc and my laptopGive a try to syncthing.net
ive tried that and i ended up with folders i could not delete even after uninstalling it
cant you sorta do that with netcat already
Yes certainly with SSH - croc is probably addinga few cherries on the top though:
- allows any two computers to transfer data (using a relay)
- provides end-to-end encryption (using PAKE)
- enables easy cross-platform transfers (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- allows multiple file transfers
- allows resuming transfers that are interrupted
- local server or port-forwarding not needed
- ipv6-first with ipv4 fallback
- can use proxy, like tor
well in that case maybe i will compile it and play around with it
Tried it. Installs easily and works well 😀
