NWnwrk·Aug 31, 2016Submission
4 points · Open discussionmcginty
shoop
Rust2016–2016
mcginty / shoop
shoop
scp has a run-in with mosh (alpha)
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Observed mentions: 2016-07-30 07:40:36 UTC to 2016-08-31 07:34:14 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 25 | 2016-07-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Aug 1 | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 8 | 2016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-08-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 15 | 2016-08-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 22 | 2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 29 | 2016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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3 sourcesIf you're looking for a proven protocol that's better suited to transferring vast amounts of data across the globe, while being based on UDP, and you have been using rsync or bittorrent, here's something that's less known but offers a good speed advantage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP-based_Data_Transfer_Protoc...
Please don't complain about Sourceforge, UDT is an old project: http://udt.sourceforge.net/
And here's their distributed filesystem built on top of UDT: http://sector.sourceforge.net/
Edit: Protocol-level security is being worked on for UDT5, but in the meantime there's a Rust-based experimental attempt at replacing SCP with UDT-based solution: https://github.com/mcginty/shoop
In Google’s QUIC protocol: moving the web from TCP to UDPShoop: a high-speed encrypted file transfer tool
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