pcp

There are a few others p2pcopy https://github.com/psantosl/p2pcopy pcp https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

There are a few browser based p2p file sharing tools [1] and a bunch of CLI tools out there as well for the same job. # Browser Based 1. FilePizza https://file.pizza/ 2. SnapDrop https://snapdrop.net/ https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop. A fork PairDrop https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop 3. Instant.io https://instant.io/ 4. file ai http://fileai.com/ 5. Send Anywhere https://send-anywhere.com/ 6. Just Beaam it https://www.justbeamit.com/ 7. Yt2fb.in https://yt2fb.in/file-transfer/ 8. drop.lol https://drop.lol/ https://github.com/mat-sz/filedrop # CLI 1. croc https://github.com/schollz/croc 2. p2pcopy https://github.com/psantosl/p2pcopy 3. pcp https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp 4. wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william [1]: https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/fd6e275e44009b72f64d0570...

I’m currently working on a new version of pcp [0]. Based on croc, magic-wormhole and the likes it doesn’t require a relay. It uses the IPFS DHT as a discovery point to connect two machines. Haven’t touched the currently released code in two years but the new hole punching capabilities of libp2p show promising result so I’m working on a new version. [0] https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp

Magic wormhole isn’t strictly peer to peer nor uses WebRTC as the traffic is routed through a relay server. This was my motivation to build one of these hundreds file sharing tools [0]. My aim was to build a truly decentralised file sharing CLI as basically a drop-in replacement for croc/magic-wormhole - so it seems relevant to mention it here. It’s based on libp2p and comes with its own trade offs. lotharrr (the author of magic-wormhole) gave kind and valuable feedback when I posted it on HN [1]. [0] https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26127923

I‘ve also built a file transfer tool (CLI) with emphasis on decentralization. It’s a fully decentralized p2p file transfer tool based on libp2p: https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp I‘m currently trying to make it interoperable with https://share.ipfs.io/#/ which resembles the functionality of the posted tool.

One problem of p2p is bootstrapping. When a p2p application starts the first time it needs to know how to contact the first peer. After that the first peer can give addresses of more peers. But how can the p2p application get the address of the first peer? A solution would be a central server that maintains a list of peers. But this is not p2p. After all the point of p2p is that it doesn't need central servers. https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp#how-does-it-work uses IPFS to contact the first peer. OK. However in the quest to understand how to boostrap p2p really independent of a central service, I feel somewhat cheated, because IPFS also would need to bootstrap. It's sort of kicking the can down the road. How does IPFS bootstrap? Is there really a way to bootstrap p2p without reliance on a list of central servers? I thought about a hardco