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Secure ShellFish – SSH and SFTP Storage for iOS
- ulzeraj 7y agoIt would be cool if it could import keys from clipboard. I’ve tried to export my existing keys from Shelly and found out that I’ll have to write them to an iCloud file before importing them. But overall this is great. I’m already a happy working copy customer.
- ulzeraj 7y agoOh wait my bad aparently it does. I’ve exported a key without password to clipboard in my iPad and the button text changed from “import from clipboard”. I think I’ve accidentally exported the pubkey instead. My bad.
- netfl0 7y agoDoes this integrate with the native cloud file manager for iOS?
- tedmiston 7y agoIf you're asking whether the server directories appear in the Files app, then yes, they do. More info - https://secureshellfish.app/ https://secureshellfish.app/
- hprotagonist 7y agonotably, this is the developer behind Working Copy (https://workingcopyapp.com/ https://workingcopyapp.com/), which Does Not Suck (tm).
- 0xCMP 7y agoWorking Copy is an amazing app. I'm pretty excited to try/buy this just because I know they made quality stuff.
- tedmiston 7y agoWorking Copy is the best developer app I've ever bought on iOS.
- jchw 7y agoBig fan of Working Copy. Seeing that in the portfolio made this an easy app to install, for me.
- hprotagonist 7y agoyeah. i was dubious and then i saw the name and felt reassured. Already bought the onetime IaP
- throwanem 7y agoI might be able to get rid of Dropbox with this...
- goerz 7y agoI did! I'm using ResilioSync to synchronize across devices, including a cheap Hetzner server with a 6TB harddrive, and then use Secure ShellFish to access that server from iOS devices (while ResilioSync does have an iOS app, that one is too buggy to be useable)
- matrixagent 7y agoHow much is the 6TB Hetzner machine?
- goerz 7y agoabout $25 per month, depending on the current EUR/USD conversion rate. It's a machine from their "server auction" (https://www.hetzner.com/sb https://www.hetzner.com/sb)
- woodrowbarlow 7y agocan't tell if this comment is in earnest or if it's another dig at the infamous top comment[1] for dropbox's HN launch announcement. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- wyldfire 7y agoHmm. The lack of any kind of user-accessible local filesystem is one thing that makes me not prefer iOS. But it's a real puzzler: is this really a brand new implementation of the ssh protocol? I know I'd feel a LOT better knowing that it used OpenSSH.
- frou_dh 7y agoAccording to the About screen in the app, it uses libssh2.
- tgragnato 7y agoIs that the reason for supporting only rsa keys?
- palmin 7y agoShellFish developer here. Recently libssh2 1.9 was released with support for modern ssh key types, but I need to do some extra work to calculate public key from private keys that depend on each key type. I just really wanted to release a first version and more key types will be coming soon.
- jjjbokma 7y agoThanks, I am looking forward to ed25519 support as RSA and DSA are considered too weak [1], [2]. [1] https://blog.g3rt.nl/upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html https://blog.g3rt.nl/upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html [2] https://latacora.micro.blog/the-default-openssh/ https://latacora.micro.blog/the-default-openssh/
- drcongo 7y agoThis looks really great, bought Pro already and looking forward to seeing it evolve. Could I please put in a request for krypt.co key support?
- lkurusa 7y agoJust yesterday I was designing something on my iPad Pro and had to save it to Local Storage (which is another great app, btw) only to use Blink to scp it over. SCP in the end didn't work (in Blink) with key authentication, so I had to resort to https://transfer.sh/ https://transfer.sh/ Complex, and this might make it a lot simpler. Thanks!
- cbsks 7y ago“The app contains no crash reporting or analytics frameworks with the exception of the beta version that uses HockeyApp for crash reporting.” https://secureshellfish.app/privacy.html https://secureshellfish.app/privacy.html More apps need to have a policy like this!
- basdp 7y agoI need proof first. Seen too many apps call home that say they don’t.
- rooster8 7y agoI've found this developer to be trustworthy, has a good track record with his git app. I'd be surprised if he would make this claim if it were untrue... it could easily be proven wrong by anyone using Charles proxy.
- palmin 7y agoI'm the developer of Secure ShellFish. You could use something like Charles for iOS to see that it doesn't connect to anything except the servers you configure.
- meritt 7y agoThat's not perfect btw, many apps today are using websockets (e.g. https://github.com/daltoniam/Starscream https://github.com/daltoniam/Starscream) to connect upstream and they bypass iOS/Android proxy settings entirely with no way for http based mitms to see that traffic. Gotta fall back to wireshark for 100%.
- verigit 7y agoMy app has a similar policy: https://easygit.app/privacy/ https://easygit.app/privacy/ It even has the sandbox entitlements to prove it.
- astazangasta 7y agoWhile i use SFTP a lot using sshfs, it is a terrible storage solution in general. If you don't know, SSH does its own flow control on top of TCP (that is, you have TCP flow control outside the SSH sleeve and SSH flow control inside it). The result is SFTP often bogs down and has dismal transfer rates. You can do much better using e.g. WebDAV and dav2fs, which lets you use https to authenticate and transfer.
- pnutjam 7y agosuggest an app. My daughter has an iphone and my kids use ipads for school. My biggest problem is their inability to backup to my linux server, or grab stuff easily off my samba share folder.
- IlyaStam 7y agoDropbox?
- pnutjam 7y agoDropbox is cloud, I want to talk to my own server.
- obenn 7y agoI'd suggest waiting until iOS 13 for native SMB support.
- tambourine_man 7y agoThis is going to be huge. And amazing that it took so long
- asark 7y agoftps not an option? Just too much less convenient (more set-up) than sftp, I'm guessing? I've not had great experience with WebDAV but maybe it's just the implementations I've used.
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- dewey 7y agoMacStories also has a nice review: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/secure-shellfish-review-adding-your-mac-or-another-ssh-or-sftp-server-to-apples-files-app/ https://www.macstories.net/reviews/secure-shellfish-review-a...
- jiveturkey 7y agoFYI can't be found via search on ios app store app, even though the name is unique. instead, navigate to it via browser. I guess b/c it was released just today? I've been wishing for a long time that Auristor (AFS) on ios would work with the Files app, but sadly it doesn't. Making it less than useful. For personal-only use, this is far easier anyway.
- layoutIfNeeded 7y agoIn my experience it can take 1-2 days for the AppStore to index a newly released app.
- glhaynes 7y agoWhich seems crazy. But, yeah. Also can do a search for "Working Copy", tap that app, then tap the button to show more from the same developer.
- fmajid 7y agoWell, Panic’s Transmit is EOL, it’s good to have replacements, although this does not do S3 (yet).