Show HN: Peer-to-peer secure file transfer using WebRTC

Similar project: FilePizza – <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;file.pizza&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;file.pizza&#x2F;</a><p>github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kern&#x2F;filepizza" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kern&#x2F;filepizza</a> show hn: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9535332" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9535332</a>

From the HN title: &quot;secure&quot;<p>I have a question: Secure against what thread model?<p>The FAQ has an entry for &quot;How do I know you&#x27;re not sending all my data to the NSA?&quot; but that&#x27;s the wrong question to ask (i.e. Even if you&#x27;re not behaving maliciously, that doesn&#x27;t mean our data is safe against highly sophisticated threats).<p>It would really be great if you could demonstrate what makes this more secure than alternative solutions.<p>That said, this is kind of neat.

I also made a similar project to this using WebRTC: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mkstream.club&#x2F;#&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mkstream.club&#x2F;#&#x2F;</a><p>Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;make-sity&#x2F;mkstream" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;make-sity&#x2F;mkstream</a>

There&#x27;s also <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sharedrop.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sharedrop.io</a>, which was featured on HN a couple years ago and also uses WebRTC.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cowbell&#x2F;sharedrop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cowbell&#x2F;sharedrop</a> Discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7468328" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7468328</a>

&quot;Secure&quot; but &quot;we advise against using Bitfly for highly sensitive data. You have been warned.&quot;.<p>So is it secure or isn&#x27;t it?

My favorite of these tools is magic womhole (command-line only):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;warner&#x2F;magic-wormhole" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;warner&#x2F;magic-wormhole</a><p>It gives you a few words for you to give the recipient, they type them in, and boom, transfer starts.

Sorry for off-topic, does anyone know why Google phone calling (Voice &#x2F; Hangouts) still doesn&#x27;t work with WebRTC and requires native plugin? And are there any other services for making phone calls which actually work with WebRTC?

With some sort of peer discovery functionality, this could be a pretty cool open, cross-platform replacement for Apple&#x27;s AirDrop.<p>...but would probably need WebRTC functionality in Safari to work on iOS devices

Very cool! We built something similar using flash and RTMFP back in 2010 and actually got into YC W11 with the project (with dreams of building something like airdrop until Apple went and actually built airdrop causing us to pivot into high speed data transport instead).<p>It&#x27;s great to see this being implemented using WebRTC now, which was just popping onto the radar back then. I envy you building this without having to write any action script or flex code! Best of luck with the project.

Awesome, I&#x27;m looking to incorporate some of this into a project I&#x27;m working on.

Slightly off topic, but can anyone recommend a webrtc tutorial for data channels or any projects which can be used for player v player over the browser (chrome) . I guess like one player has to be the master and the other players join his&#x2F;her webrtc connection ?

I was wondering if it is possible to transfer streaming video data over WebRTC already, for example to implement a video chat service, without wasting too much CPU power and&#x2F;or bandwidth?

Why not just use <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;instant.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;instant.io</a> ?<p>If you are worried about security, encrypt before sending.

Wow. Now implement this with file search and you&#x27;ve basically got something like Napster.