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Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:

80 mentions on Hacker News by 66 people: 14 stories, 66 comments · first 2017-10-22 · latest 2026-09-05

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  1. Just added it now. Send with croc send --text "hello, world" [1] [1]: https://github.com/schollz/croc/releases/tag/v8.2.0
    comment by qrv3w · 2020-09-03 · in Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
  2. Magic Wormhole is good. These days I use croc,[0] which I find even better. [0]: https://github.com/schollz/croc
    comment by theobeers · 2020-09-02 · in Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
  3. …downsides were that the entire file had to finish uploading first and a lack of auto-resume. [0] https://github.com/schollz/croc
    comment by greenbush · 2020-08-24 · in Mozilla's Speech-to-Text Engine Is at Risk Following Layoffs
  4. also https://github.com/schollz/croc
    comment by leeoniya · 2020-08-11 · in Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
  5. I've been using croc for a few months and it works perfectly: https://github.com/schollz/croc . End to end encryption, command line only, and claims to be "faster than wormhole, rsync, scp through compression and multiplexing (speedups…
    comment by greenbush · 2020-06-27 · in Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler
  6. This was spotted on HN 3 weeks ago: https://github.com/schollz/croc
    comment by spappal · 2020-06-04 · in Sharedrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
  7. …are supported. More information on design decisions are documented in a blog post [1]. [0]: https://github.com/schollz/croc#usage [1]: https://schollz.com/blog/croc6/
    comment by Seirdy · 2019-12-29 · in Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client Written in Rust
  8. Looks cool! Personally, however, I’ve been using croc ( https://github.com/schollz/croc ) and can’t recommend it enough. I use it almost on a daily basis and is a super easy file transfer tool.
    comment by sdan · 2019-12-28 · in Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client Written in Rust
  9. https://github.com/schollz/croc is written in Go, doesn’t need an installer and has worked reasonably well for me on Windows.
    comment by K2L8M11N2 · 2019-12-28 · in Age: A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool
  10. …when its not realtime oriented. share is very similar to transfer.sh and send.firefox.com. [1]: https://github.com/schollz/croc
    comment by qrv3w · 2019-06-28 · in Show HN: Share files from the terminal or browser
  11. …of MIT license) I'll fork their code into croc so it can do WebRTC with a secure PAKE channel. [1]: https://github.com/schollz/croc/tree/v5
    comment by qrv3w · 2019-04-08 · in Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go
  12. How about a tool like croc instead? https://github.com/schollz/croc
    comment by maracuja-juice · 2019-04-08 · in Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go
  13. There’s croc[1] too, which is basically the same thing but written in Go. [1] https://github.com/schollz/croc
    comment by dschulz · 2019-03-03 · in Show HN: A tool to upload/download files from command line
  14. …s://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/cryptobook/BonehShoup_0_4.... [1]: https://github.com/schollz/pake [2]: https://github.com/schollz/croc
    comment by qrv3w · 2018-10-20 · in Let’s talk about PAKE
  15. …[6]: https://github.com/zerotier/toss [7]: https://github.com/datproject/dat [8]: https://github.com/schollz/croc
    comment by qrv3w · 2018-06-20 · in Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line
  16. …could have done myself, I didn't have to and I also got to see some ingenuity of other people! [1]: https://github.com/schollz/croc/graphs/contributors
    comment by qrv3w · 2017-10-24 · in How to get an open source community to be interested in helping you