Secure Text Transfer (STT) is a website project enabling people to transfer a piece of text (e.g. a password, URL, text snippet) conveniently and securely from one device to another. Design goals:
- no registration or login needed
- minimal amount of cognitive load
- minimal amount of typing and clicks without sacrifing security
- responsive design, wide device support
I started this project in 2020, because over the years I often had the need to quickly copy a password from one device to another. As secure passwords are quite long nowadays and the amount of typing can be quite frustrating, I thought there should be a way to copy a text string from one trusted device to another securely. As I did not find any ready-made solution fitting my needs, I decided to make it myself.
Currently the text is transferred from the sending device to the server, stored in working memory for a maximum time of 5 minutes or until it is retrieved and then deleted. It is not written anywhere permanently, whether in a database nor is it logged anywhere. Transport security is guaranteed by using HTTPS.
In the future the text to be transferred is encrypted on the client side, further increasing the security.
The project has a backend, see secure-text-transfer-backend.
This project is the frontend part, which is a static website. The frontend interacts with the backend through REST endpoints using AJAX.
To run the frontend locally you need a simple HTTP server to server the pages locally. If you want to interact with the backend, you should run the backend locally. See https://github.com/sasuw/secure-text-transfer-backend
If you have Python 3 installed on your machine, just go to the dist directory under root of this project and run
python -m http.server 8080
and open your browser at http://localhost:8080
As this is a multi-lingual website built with qutem, you have to apply the templates before seeing the changes. The easiest way to do that is to run the script
./build/createDist.sh
The sitemap for this website is create with camilla.
See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).
You can contribute to this project in many ways:
- submitting an issue (bug or enhancement proposal)
- testing
- contributing code
If you want to contribute code, please open an issue or contact me beforehand to ensure that your work in line with the project goals.
When you decide to commit some code:
- Fork the Project
- Create your Feature Branch (
git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature) - Commit your Changes (
git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature') - Push to the Branch (
git push origin feature/AmazingFeature) - Open a Pull Request
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
Sasu Welling - @sasuw -
Project Link: https://github.com/sasuw/secure-text-transfer-frontend