Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
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Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
#2wormhole is awesome, useful especially in ad-hoc scenarios. I use it often to copy files between systems when I can’t use scp (because of no relevant entries in authorized_keys.
Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
#3A similar project with some nice features that I use is croc: https://github.com/schollz/croc
Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
#4There are a few others
p2pcopy https://github.com/psantosl/p2pcopy
pcp https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp
wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
#5There are a few others p2pcopy https://github.com/psantosl/p2pcopy pcp https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
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Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
#6There are a few others p2pcopy https://github.com/psantosl/p2pcopy pcp https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
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scp has the assumption that you have a login on the computers you're trying to share data from. wormhole allows for sharing with others without providing login access to the computer
Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
#7wormhole is awesome, useful especially in ad-hoc scenarios. I use it often to copy files between systems when I can’t use scp (because of no relevant entries in authorized_keys.
Can I use it with my buddy on the other end and connect his machine to mine easily? Like let him slurp a file from my home machine?
Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
#8wormhole is awesome, useful especially in ad-hoc scenarios. I use it often to copy files between systems when I can’t use scp (because of no relevant entries in authorized_keys.
Can I use it with my buddy on the other end and connect his machine to mine easily? Like let him slurp a file from my home machine?
Just set up a VPN if that's what you want?
Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
#9Tailscale has that Taildrop thing now, too: https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop
Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
#10I've used wormhole once to move a 70 GB file. Couldn't possibly do that before. And yes, I know I used the bandwidth of the relay server, I donated to Debian immediately afterwards (they run the relay for the version in the apt package).