4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely

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I do:
Wormhole.app: for smaller file transfers to people not tech savvy
Rsync: if the person is running an SSH server I can connect to
Bittorrent: pretty much anything else

No love for SwissTransfer from Infomaniak. Shame.
- Didn't see the comment before posting
  Totally agree, swiss transfer is incredible but I thought its use was restricted to Switzerland?

There's croc which looks very similar to magic-wormhole. Haven't used magic-wormhole so can't compare the two though.
- @pro3757 @petsoi can confirm, croc is awesome.
  you can even use your own infrastructure as the midpoint.

I'm surprised Magic Wormhole wasn't on here. There's a gnome app for it called Warp and several android apps, all FOSS.

I never see toffeeshare mentioned. P2P, encrypted, no size limit. Only problem is you can't send folders, only files, but that's easily solved with tarballs or RARs.

Why isn't syncthing there? Is there something bad with it I'm not aware of amor are they just not aware of it?
- I think because Syncthing isn't really for "sharing" files. It can move large files across the internet but it's not designed for "hey send me a copy of that blu-ray your ripped" sharing.

Anyone have any objections or anything negative to say about snapdrop(dot)net besides maybe anyone on the same network could try to connect to you?
- PairDrop(dot)net is a fork with a bit more features
- snapdrop.net seems to go down all the time, I stopped using it a while ago and switched to LocalSend
  neither of them work over the internet though so they don't really fit the article

If your swiss, just use swisstransfer.com. it's fast, supports up to 50gb of data, 500 transfers per day (and free!), more than you'll ever need. Although for security, they do say your filles are sent over https, but because they do not promote encryption I suppose they don't support that (although they do support password protected files).
So yeah, it's usually more than enough for most use cases, although I'd encrypt my files before sending them if they contain sensitive data, but that's rarely the case.

scp cli app
- Does scp resume broken transfers? If not, maybe rsync instead. Lots can go wrong for connectivity over the span of hours/days
  
  You're right

Interesting to see wormhole mentioned as non open source. The protocol and its CLI tools are, probably the web interface and GUIs are not
- Based on this reddit comment, that website is not affiliated with the magic-wormhole CLI tool

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