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by qrv3w 995 days ago
I think the main advantage that I like croc over many utilities is that it can resume file transfers from where it left off. I'm not sure if wormhole has this yet. Of course torrents do this, but I find sharing via torrenting still not super easy for the layperson.
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Torrents also don't provide encryption between peers, unless you use SSL torrents, but it's clearly designed towards sharing between a group, not one-on-one transfers.
How does the group design hurt 1-1

(BitTorrent/Resilio sync uses SSL and seems fine for 1-1 design-wise)

It's just a bit more involved to use for this use case, especially if the data is confidential (having to set the private flag so clients don't publish the infohash to DHT, using a built-in tracker in your client, transport layer encryption not provided by default). Things like Resilio are fine, they build on top of the protocol and provide a different UX.