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Show HN: Flying Carpet – Ad-hoc wireless, cross-platform, encrypted file sharing

50 pointsby spiegltalmost 8 years ago

6 comments

ekwogefeealmost 8 years ago
Good. I tried it, and it works.<p>I&#x27;ve been in this space now for some years, running a similar product (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.feem.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.feem.io</a>).<p>Just one observation.<p>The windows version of your code uses the HostedNetwork API to create an ad-hoc wireless network. Microsoft deprecated the Hosted Network API in Windows 10, in favor of the new Wi-Fi Direct APIs. This means that Wi-Fi vendors don&#x27;t need to support the old HostedNetwork API, and Dell, Intel and Realtek have all already ripped out support. Your code won&#x27;t work on many modern Wi-Fi cards for Windows. To fix this, you&#x27;ll need to support the new Windows Wi-Fi Direct APIs in future versions of your open source project.<p>Hope this helps.
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moreiraalmost 8 years ago
This is terrific. There have been several situations that I can think of where being able to just transfer files across computers without the help of a network would&#x27;ve made my life a lot easier.<p>The encryption is a nice side-benefit, but the real value is in the zero-config transmission of files. Something like this ought to be built into every modern OS, especially considering that most computers have wifi cards these days.
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provostalmost 8 years ago
I&#x27;m not familiar with Go, but was looking through the source code and saw this:<p><pre><code> encrypted = secretbox.Seal(nonce[:], chunk, &amp;nonce, &amp;key) </code></pre> Is secretbox [1] a standard Go library?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godoc.org&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;x&#x2F;crypto&#x2F;nacl&#x2F;secretbox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godoc.org&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;x&#x2F;crypto&#x2F;nacl&#x2F;secretbox</a>
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ivan_ahalmost 8 years ago
How does this work? Would it be possible to do something similar on Linux? Android?
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popeyalmost 8 years ago
This is rather neat. Sorry to be that guy, but any plans to support Linux too?
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kwhitefootalmost 8 years ago
Any chance of a Linux version?
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