Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another
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A more popular and, I think, carefully analyzed alternative, from which croc was inspired, is Magic Wormhole; a good Golang implementation that compiles down to a single binary is wormhole-william: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases I believe croc has some features wormhole doesn't (and some anti-features, like being able to pick curves and hashes). But also just that it's worth knowing that Magic Wormhole is kind of the "default" tool that does this.
The author has a blog post at https://schollz.com/blog/croc6/ with more information. I would like to see a security analysis. The code phrases seem ludicrously short to me …
Love croc. It’s my go to tool for moving files between machines.
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