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

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816 points tosh | 1 comments | 17 Aug 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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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ddtaylor ◴[17 Aug 24 19:08 UTC] No.41277088[source]▶
Do they share any underlying protocol standard or something?
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1. meejah ◴[26 Aug 24 16:17 UTC] No.41358732[source]▶
Yes, all the implementations speak the same wire protocol.

The Python implementation has the most features. More about which implementations support what features is here: https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ecosystem.ht...