onionshare/README.md

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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 does not require setting up a separate server or using a third party file-sharing service. You host the files on your own computer and use a Tor Onion Service to make it temporarily accessible over the internet. The receiving user just needs to open the URL in Tor Browser to download the file.

Documentation

To learn how OnionShare works, what its security properties are, and how to use it, check out the wiki.

Downloading OnionShare

You can download OnionShare for Windows and macOS from the OnionShare website.

For Ubuntu-like distributions, you could use this PPA to get the latest version:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:micahflee/ppa
sudo apt install -y onionshare

OnionShare also may be available in your operating system's package manager:

Packaging status

Developing OnionShare

You can set up your development environment to build OnionShare yourself by following these instructions. You may also subscribe to our developers mailing list here.

Test status: CircleCI

Screenshots

Share mode OnionShare

Share mode Tor Browser

Receive mode OnionShare

Receive mode Tor Browser