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Can someone EIL5 this for me. I don't understand how this works. If I have my computer on my home network and the person I was to share a file with is on their
by account-5 3y ago
Can someone EIL5 this for me. I don't understand how this works. If I have my computer on my home network and the person I was to share a file with is on their home network, how does this work out where it's sending the file/folder? The examples seem to suggest it magically knows based just on a passphrase. I have to be missing something. I'm aware this is a stupid question but I can't, based on what I've read so far, work out how this transfers stuff without more details.
- gitanovic 3y agoThe application has a default parameter that points to a relay server, when you want to share something, you tell to the server "hey I want to connect" and the server gives you back a passphrase, now the receiver connects to the same server and has to use the same passphrase to get the files you are sharing Then the server tries to make your and the receiver clients connect directly to each other, if this doesn't work (mostly because of firewalls) it also Relais the parts of the file, which by the way are encrypted so that only your receiver client can decrypt That's my understanding of how it works
- account-5 3y agoThanks, I thought there had to be some sort of middle man type thing going on. Not obvious, at least to me, from the info in the repo.