Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com> writes:

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From: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> To: Chris Troutner <Chris.Troutner@PACCAR.com>; freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:02 AM Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] BitTorrent Sync

Chris Troutner <Chris.Troutner@PACCAR.com> writes:

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I ran across this article on Slashdot about the new Sync platform in alpha test by BitTorrent. Apparently it's 'like' Dropbox, but it uses your own machine. It allows file synchronization between two (or more) computers, like your laptop and personal server.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/1941226/bittorrent-launches- dropbox-alternative

Does anyone know more about this?

I don't, when I read about it I thought that if I wanted such a thing, I'd almost certainly use git-annex instead (and 'git annex assistant' in particular). See:

http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/

It's like bittorrent sync, except it doesn't scale and doesn't use encryption out of the box.

Well, since you put it like that, I guess I have to set you straight: It uses ssh out of the box -- so there's your transport encryption, and it optionally uses GPG encryption for special remotes (i.e. dumping your files in Amazon S3, or a USB stick, say), so yes, it does do encryption out of the box in the places where one might actually want it. http://git-annex.branchable.com/encryption/ As for scaling, it depends what you're after, but since (if using the assistant) you can nudge remotes into attempting to pull from one another via XMPP, I think it's got quite a few of the real world use cases covered for scalability too. The big win for me is that it builds on proven technology, that is easy to trust. I know I'd much rather trust the crypto in ssh and GPG than something alpha from bittorrent. Git's had a fair amount of testing too (as has git annex). Bittorrent sync on the other hand is currently in an invitation-only pre-alpha phase, it seems. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE