Magic-Wormhole – Get things from one computer to another, safely
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#3the motivations are great:
"Moving a file to a friend's machine, when the humans can speak to each other (directly) but the computers cannot
Delivering a properly-random password to a new user via the phone
Supplying an SSH public key for future login use"
i had never even thought about those, and this is a great solution afaik
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#4Also, Piknik: https://github.com/jedisct1/piknik
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#5This reminds me of the great tool http://www.fefe.de/ncp/, which seems like the same thing only without the cryptographic authentication!
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#6Waiting for the security nits, but this looks awesome and I have use cases for it every week
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#7Extending this to a small text-based GUI with chat could make it a lot more useful, too. Sort of like a person-to-person BBS.
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#8How is the 16 bit wormhole code secure against brute force?
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#9Trusting the baked-in rendezvous server would seem to be the most obvious security "nit," which could be addressed by compiling and running your own server. But out-of-the-box, that would seem to be a weak-point for MitM attack.
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#10This reminds me of the great tool http://www.fefe.de/ncp/ , which seems like the same thing only without the cryptographic authentication!
Why the downvotes? ncp is really useful for hacker space like environments.