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

Re:Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, ... by hnnnnnnng on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:48PM (#27269514)

How many of these webrtc peer to peer file sharing sites are we going to have? I swear there are hundreds at this point. None of them offer anything different than each other. Sure, it's a great project for a frontend dev to throw together on a weekend. But that's about it

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Re:Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, ... by dennis-tra on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:10PM (#27269749)

Magic wormhole isn’t strictly peer to peer nor uses WebRTC as the traffic is routed through a relay server. This was my motivation to build one of these hundreds file sharing tools [0]. My aim was to build a truly decentralised file sharing CLI as basically a drop-in replacement for croc/magic-wormhole - so it seems relevant to mention it here. It’s based on libp2p and comes with its own trade offs.

lotharrr (the author of magic-wormhole) gave kind and valuable feedback when I posted it on HN [1].

[0] https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26127923

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Re:Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, ... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:52PM (#27269562)

Did you read the link?

This is a cli application. I am not aware of them also offering a web site, although that would certainly be a great addition.

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Re:Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, ... by brink on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:49PM (#27269533)

There are a lot of them because they're fun to write. NES emulators are another example.

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