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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

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ddtaylor wrote: post #252
meejah wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also a Haskell implementation (besides the Go one pointed out above). They all interoperate.

Thank you. What protocol are they using to interoperate?

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/

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

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Post by meejah »

ddtaylor wrote: post #61
tptacek wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do they share any underlying protocol standard or something?

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...

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