Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client Written in Rust

Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by megous on Saturday December 28, 2019 @08:29AM (#21898771)

Nothing. You can get the same secure sharing service with zero hassle with a simple shell script:

    sum=$(sha1sum "$1" | cut -f 1 -d ' ')
    ssh your-vps mkdir /srv/http/files/$sum
    scp "$1" your-vps:/srv/http/files/$sum/
    echo https://your-vps/files/$sum/$1

+ nginx or whatever

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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by rvz on Saturday December 28, 2019 @09:08AM (#21898961)

Well I can't use this on Windows nor can I guarantee that this cryptic shell script will run on my friends computer who still uses Windows. Even so, he wouldn't know how to run it.

Also it can't be a "secure sharing service" if you're still using 'sha1sum' and it not being end-to-end encrypted...

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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by megous on Saturday December 28, 2019 @11:39AM (#21899826)

So use sha256sum, if you don't trust SHA1.

Also it's quite secure since file content is clearly mapped to the URL you're sharing with the other party via independent channel and the receiving party can verify the content of the file.

It may not be completely private if VPS does not run on your own HW, but nothing prevents you from running it on your own HW in your secured location.

You can use this on windows the same way you'd use it on Linux. You just install a bunch of programs and run commands from command line. (basically just like you'd need to do with fsend) It's less hassle on Linux, since the commands are pre-installed. Fsend is more hassle on Linux since it's not preinstalled and requires rust, compilation, etc.

The other people just open a https links and download files in any browser or via curl, no tools required at all, not even JS.

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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by ubercow13 on Saturday December 28, 2019 @08:31AM (#21898775)

That isn't really comparable in that it's not E2EE

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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by megous on Saturday December 28, 2019 @08:49AM (#21898870)

It is, as all ends belong either to you (source computer, vps) or the destination device, and it uses ssh and https.

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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by ubercow13 on Saturday December 28, 2019 @08:55AM (#21898903)

The VPS doesn't really belong to you. Google has exactly the same ability to view your secret file shared unencrypted over Drive as they do to view your file stored on your f1-micro instance.

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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by megous on Saturday December 28, 2019 @11:29AM (#21899748)

That's just your assumption. VPS != Google. It's just a virtual machine running on some HW. I agree that if that HW is not owned by you, it can be a problem. If that's a problem you can just add another layer of encryption to the mix, like a GPG command.

I can and do own that HW. At least as much as one can own anything - it's located in my appartment. You can just as well run the web server from your own workstation/laptop.

The only reason to put shared files on other computer is that the other computer is more available.

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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by _jal on Saturday December 28, 2019 @10:31AM (#21899354)

Great Dropbox replacement.

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