Introducing Nabto

Want to share information present on your computer? But don't want to wait forever on your email program sending it or your browser uploading it to some third party site? You want a restricted set of people you know to access your information directly on your computer with no network and firewall hassle?

What you want is Nabto!

Our Solution

Using Nabto you can communicate and share data directly from everywhere to everyone. This is possible by building a Network Access Bridge TO the internet resource you request (nabto://).

This is how it works.

Nabto consists of three components:

  • A Nabto plugin component installed in your browser
  • A Nabto server component installed on devices that have information, you want to share.
  • Nabto portal, used to manage your Nabto services your provide to others (we denote these services Nablications).

Simple schematic view of nabto setup
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Nabto Plugin

After installing the Nabto browser plugin, you will be able to surf the Nabto network - that is, access Nabto servers owned by users that have granted you access. This includes your own servers and servers owned by your friends.

Strong authentication via X509

By registering the plugin you will get a digital certificate (X509) bound to your email address that you use to identify yourself to Nabto servers. A digital certificate ensures a very high degree of security in the system. We have spent a large effort to make it happen "silently" with a minimum of hassle.

Nabto Server

A Nabto server may be any computer with Internet access - you just need to install the Nabto server software. Once the basic software is installed, you may share information from the computer by installing various Nablications (services). Presently we support only regular computers to act as Nabto servers but our vision is to support any device as a Nabto server.

Server identity

When requesting a server installation from the portal, your server will get:

  • A unique address, in the normal internet address space (DNS).
  • A digitally signed server certificate bound to this address, used to identify the server to Nabto plugin enabled browsers.

Nabto Portal

On the portal you will be able to download the basic Nabto software (plugin and server software) and various Nablications (services). It is also here you manage who will be able to gain access to your Nablications.