Open mubashir-rehman opened 3 years ago
Wow, thank you soo much! I would love to cooperate.
I have actually thought of adding p2p feature to enable direct file sharing between devices that are not on the same network. However, I did not find any cross-platform tools to bypass NAT and using relay servers (like ngrok or fatedier/frp) is kinda expensive.
Uprotocol is a protocol for local content exchange.
It uses CoolSocket, a socket layer that I created for the same purpose. It supports encryption & authentication and it should be secure. I am designing it with compatibility in mind so old implementations won't lose support.
I have reached an alpha stage and was testing with a dummy Android application.
If you are interested, I can provide you with documentation to implement in your language of choice :)
The only part that might cause trouble is the generation of the self-signed certificates.
@marchellodev A few weeks ago, a stable version of Trebleshot was released which uses uprotocol. Just a status update in case it helps.
@opusforlife2 He knows about it.
I plan to re-write Sharik's backend in Rust for better performance and an adequate cli version. @velitasali Said a few weeks ago that he could create an implementation of uProtocol in Rust. I will integrate this implementation into Sharik's backend then :)
Btw, @velitasali if you need any help with implementing uProtocol in Rust, let me know!
Background: Sharik is a promising project and I hope it gets the recognition it deserves. I have been a FOSS lover since I started using FOSS apps and try my best to help in any possible way. I have been using @trebleshot since 2018 when I found it while searching for FOSS alternative to ShareIt to share files with my laptop and friends. It has been working very well for me as of now. However, a person told me about Sharik in trebleshot's help group on Telegram. I thought it would be great to check it out. It seems to be an epic initiative. Main topic: However, I think it would be great if @velitasali (developer of trebleshot) and you might find some time to talk about what can be done better. Veli is working on @uprotocol, a peer to peer file sharing protocol. It has been successful so far and being used in trebleshot. Using it might bring more opportunities for both projects and overall FOSS community.