Firefox Send: Encrypt and send large files

https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/send

by mikejarema • 9 years ago

124 22 9 years ago

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mikejarema• 9 years ago

I should have posted the link to the actual product: https://send.firefox.com/

proaralyst• 9 years ago

No, this was good: I got to read a bit of how & why first, which the actual site doesn't have.

mc322• 9 years ago

This is pretty cool. It's a nice start. I'd like a solution for transferring for example ~1TB files securely. Global scape is the only easy sol I've found so far for sharing securely with one off partners, I mean beside encrypted drives.

dogma1138• 9 years ago

UPS. :)

wodenokoto• 9 years ago

WebRTC might be a solution, if you are okay with peer-to-peer transfers, and don't need the sender and receiver to act in different time slots.

Something like https://file.pizza is really neat, and apparently have no upper limit.

mc322• 9 years ago

Thanks, will have to look into that one.

maccard• 9 years ago

We're not quite at that range, but we share ~100GB of files via SFTP. Both sides have fairly powerful connections, so it works for us.

adityapatadia• 9 years ago

https://transfer.sh is much better and allows even larger files

rebolyte• 9 years ago

Looks interesting, but a quick glance through the site and the primary GitHub repo doesn't give much information about the project. Is there any differentiating factor here besides being CLI-first?

Scarbutt• 9 years ago

Good luck with Joe.

wongarsu• 9 years ago

Firefox send has much better UI. You have to actually read the text of transfer.sh to find out how to upload via browser, while Firefox Send is immediately obvious for the average Joe.

themanual• 9 years ago

how do companies manage to serve up all the bandwidth for this for free? even storage will be costly at this scale right?

chippy2• 9 years ago

It says that the files will be removed after 24 hours, or after the first download, so I imagine storage requirements are not going to be completely unmaintainable. It's still gotta cost a bit though.

caiob• 9 years ago

It doesn't work in Safari.

kalleboo• 9 years ago

It does work in Safari Tech Preview so it'll work in Safari 11 when that's released. Looks like it relies on the Web Crypto API which is prefixed (and possibly an incompatible version) in Safari 10.

chippy2• 9 years ago

One thing I noticed was that it deletes the file upon download initialisation and not completion. So one downside is that if your friend cancels the download to try again later, they won't be able to.

One upside is that others won't be able to initiate and get the download at the same time - but perhaps if the download was cancelled, the tab closed, the item should become downloadable again?

gorhill• 9 years ago

If like me you wondered where was the encryption key... It's the fragment identifier of the URL, i.e. not sent as part of the request to the remote server, it a client-side only value.

Veratyr2• 9 years ago

Sadly this page doesn't even load unless I whitelist Mozilla Telemetry in uMatrix.

Don't suppose anyone from Mozilla can fix that?

cprecioso• 9 years ago

Well, it is part of Mozilla TestPilot, whose goal is to let you test experimental functions in exchange to extensive tracking of your use of those functions.

Veratyr2• 9 years ago

That makes sense but I'd really like to read about it before I let it violate my browser with Javascript.

mkj• 9 years ago

And doesn't load at all with cookies off too (javascript on). Looks handy though.

deknos• 9 years ago

1 gigabyte... this is small.

Firefox Send: Encrypt and send large files

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