OnionShare

OnionShare lets you securely and anonymously share files of any size. It works by starting a web server, making it accessible as a Tor onion service, and generating an unguessable URL to access and download the files. It doesn’t require setting up a server on the internet somewhere or using a third party file-sharing service. You host the file on your own computer and use a Tor onion service to make it temporarily accessible over the internet. The other user just needs to use Tor Browser to download the file from you.

Features:

A user-friendly drag-and-drop graphical user interface that works in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
Ability to share multiple files and folders at once
Support for multiple people downloading files at once
Automatically copies the unguessable URL to your clipboard
Shows you the progress of file transfers
When file is done transferring, automatically closes OnionShare to reduce the attack surface
Localized into several languages, and supports international Unicode filenames

Changelog v2.2

What’s new:

New feature: Website mode, which allows publishing a static HTML website as an onion service
Allow individual files to be viewed or downloaded in Share mode, including the ability to browse into subdirectories and use breadcrumbs to navigate back
Show a counter when individual files or pages are viewed
Better History items including colors and status codes to differentiate between successful and failed requests
Swap out the random /slug suffix for HTTP basic authentication (when in non-public mode)
Hide the Tor connection settings if the ONIONSHARE_HIDE_TOR_SETTINGS environment variable is set (Tails compatibility)
Remove the NoScript XSS warning in Receive Mode now that the NoScript/Tor Browser bug is fixed. The ajax upload method still exists when javascript is enabled.
Better support for DragonFly BSD
Updated various dependencies, including Flask, Werkzeug, urllib3, requests, and PyQt5
Updated Tor to 0.4.1.5
Other minor bug fixes
New translations:
- Arabic (العربية)
- Dutch (Nederlands)
- Persian (فارسی)
- Romanian (Română)
- Serbian latin (Srpska (latinica))
Removed translations with fewer than 90% of strings translated:
- Finnish (Suomi)

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How to Use

Before you can share files, you need to open Tor Browser in the background (or install and run a system Tor service). This will provide the Tor service that OnionShare uses to start the onion service.

Open OnionShare and drag and drop files and folders you wish to share, and click Start Sharing. It will show you a .onion URL such as http://asxmi4q6i7pajg2b.onion/egg-cain and copy it to your clipboard. This is the secret URL that can be used to download the file you’re sharing. If you’d like multiple people to be able to download this file, uncheck the “close automatically” checkbox.

Send this URL to the person you’re trying to send the files to. If the files you’re sending aren’t secret, you can use normal means of sending the URL: emailing it, posting it to Facebook or Twitter, etc. If you’re trying to send secret files then it’s important to send this URL securely.

The person who is receiving the files doesn’t need OnionShare. All they need is to open the URL you send them in Tor Browser to be able to download the file.

You can download OnionShare for Windows and macOS from https://onionshare.org/. It should be available in your package manager for Linux, and it’s included by default in Tails.

Source: https://github.com/micahflee/

onionshare 2.2 releases: Securely and anonymously share file

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