Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another
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HN comment orderA 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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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 475
- Total comments
- 210
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-22 | Show HN: Croc – Golang port of magic-wormhole to easily send files to a friend | qrv3w | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-04-25 | Show HN: croc – easily and securely transfer stuff between two computers | qrv3w | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-07-14 | Easily and securely send files from one computer to another | jaden | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-05-19 | Easily and securely send things from one computer to another | thunderbong | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-09-07 | Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another | theBashShell | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-09-09 | Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another | petepete | 6 | 0 |
| 2020-09-17 | Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to anotherFirst breakout | GordonS | 150 | 68 |
| 2022-05-03 | Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another | tambourine_man | 4 | 1 |
| 2023-04-09 | Croc: Encrypted CLI File Transfer | alden5 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-09-22 | Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to anotherHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | tentacleuno | 300 | 141 |