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[feature request] drop portal #92
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Hi Jo! Thank you for your kind words. Your idea is kind of reversing the relationship between sender and receiver, so that the receiver is openly identifiable and the sender needs to connect to them. I guess this could be enabled together with custom passphrases. With that, this behavior could be achieved by allowing a receiver to be open to send requests by starting a receiver with a custom passphrase.
Thank you for your suggestions, and I'll just let you know that we're open to contributions. |
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I recently had to use a computer where I didn't want to install my password manager but needed 1 password (a too long to type one).
At the time I didn't know portal. It's totally usable as is for the above niche problem but still has downsides:
Describe the solution you'd like
I want a drop portal! :)
I want to be able to create a receiver, it would potentially be a new command like
portal dropzone
or a new option likeportal receive -open-to-any-sender
kind.The send line
portal send <unique-id> <content>
would then be offered to send something to.Another idea here would be to allow plaintext streaming, eg:
echo $PASSWORD | portal send <unique-id>
And the drop side would get the content in the terminal or would be able to pipe it somewhere, eg:
portal dropzone | pbcopy
.Describe alternatives you've considered
I didn't know
portal
yet and I ended up solving my password-sharing need by opening a chatroom from both the target computer and another device with access to my password. I used https://www.chatcrypt.com/.The experience wasn't too bad but:
While looking at potential existing tools (and discovered portal), I also trialled https://github.com/KuroLabs/Airshare
It's only local but they bring 2 awesome concepts:
Additional context
portal
is already nailing a lot of things: end-to-end, secure, anonymity, ease, etc...It feels nearly sad that the portal created can only be used to transfer files!
I love the tool, great work!
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