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What KeibiDrop Is Not

Boundaries, stated plainly, so you can decide fast.

Not more than two peers

A session connects exactly two computers. A third machine that tries to join fails its handshake or gets connection refused; there is no room-full message, because there is no room for three. This is the current design: the two-peer case has provable no-silent-loss guarantees, and those guarantees do not extend to three writers with the same mechanism. Multi-peer support is research for a later release, not a toggle waiting to be flipped.

Two people per session still composes: A shares with B, and B can hold a separate session identity for C in a second instance. See Run two instances.

Not a sync service

Dropbox-style tools replicate everything to every device, all the time. KeibiDrop streams: files appear immediately, and bytes move when read. That is the feature, and it has a flip side: when the peer is offline, content you never read is not on your disk. There is no background replication and no offline cache today (an offline cache mode is on the roadmap). If you need a local copy, pull it or copy it out of the mount while connected.

It is also not a backup tool. Nothing is versioned server-side, because there is no server holding your files.

Not a shared drive with locking

Office file servers hand out locks so two people cannot write the same record at once. KeibiDrop has no cross-peer locks: a lock taken on one machine does not exist on the other. Simultaneous edits of one file are safe, the loser becomes a conflict file, but simultaneous use of one always-open database is not supported. Databases follow the hand-off pattern: one machine at a time.

Not on your phone yet

iOS and Android apps exist and are in testing, with the same encryption and transfer-only operation (no mounted folder on mobile). They are not in the app stores yet. Links appear here when they ship.

Not audited yet

The cryptography is implemented from well-studied constructions (ML-KEM-1024 plus X25519 hybrid, AES-256-GCM, the PQ3-style fold), and the security model states its limits honestly. An independent third-party audit has not been performed yet. If your threat model requires an audited tool, that is a fact you need.

The positive statement of what KeibiDrop is: How KeibiDrop works. The engineering list of specific limits: Limits and known issues.