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Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

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816 points tosh | 4 comments | 17 Aug 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 1.477s | source
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toomim ◴[17 Aug 24 18:20 UTC] No.41276679[source]▶
How does this relate to https://wormhole.app/ ?
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ddtaylor ◴[17 Aug 24 18:23 UTC] No.41276701[source]▶
That is something I want to know too. Do these various "wormhole" apps use any common protocol between them or do they just all use the same words and branding for different things?
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tptacek ◴[17 Aug 24 18:25 UTC] No.41276720[source]▶
Magic Wormhole is the first, and is its own thing. It's called "Magic" Wormhole for a reason: it tends to blow people away the first time they use it. So lots of people have copied the UX, and some of them have copied the name as well. What you should use is Magic Wormhole itself, or, if you want a non-Python runtime for some reason, wormhole-william.
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1. bdd ◴[17 Aug 24 18:37 UTC] No.41276810[source]▶
> if you want a non-Python runtime for some reason [...]

Magic Wormhole project has its own alternate implementation https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole.rs, which is also used by delightfully designed GNOME and Android apps; [Warp](https://apps.gnome.org/Warp/), and [Wormhole](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.heili.wormh...), respectively.

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2. meejah ◴[18 Aug 24 00:17 UTC] No.41279138[source]▶
There's also a Haskell implementation (besides the Go one pointed out above). They all interoperate.
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3. ddtaylor ◴[19 Aug 24 20:28 UTC] No.41294326[source]▶
Thank you. What protocol are they using to interoperate?
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4. meejah ◴[26 Aug 24 16:16 UTC] No.41358714{3}[source]▶
The Haskell implementation uses the same protocol as the Python implementation. The main difference is that there are some features the Python implementation has that the Haskell implementation still lacks (most notable "Dilation").

See also https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole-protocols/