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I’m currently working on a new version of pcp [0]. Based on croc, magic-wormhole and the likes it doesn’t require a relay. It uses the IPFS DHT as a discovery point to connect two machines. Haven’t touched the currently released code in two years but the new hole punching capabilities of libp2p show promising result so I’m working on a new version.

[0] https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp

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Here is my feedback about the pcp's main GitHub page, if you don't mind:

    - Move "Motivation", "Project Status", "How Does It Work?" somewhere else
    - Add "What is It?" and "Encryption" sections and place them just before the "Usage" section. Keep them reasonable small, the smaller the better

I believe that it will help the project to have a much better resonance with the target audience.

Does this run a mini IPFS node on the sender and relayer and rely instead on the IPFS network being up to propagate the DHT changes through the network?

It’s just running a very lightweight libp2p host that speaks the DHT protocol. It’s basically just taking the bare minimum part of Kubo (IPFS) that’s necessary to interact with the DHT.

It’s then relying on the rest of the IPFS network to propagate the record for discovering the sender and receiver.

Can you send files from one mobile network connected computer to another?

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