Magic Wormhole
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Secure data transfer software that allows users to transfer files between computers. It uses a Password Authenticated Key Exchange (PAKE) for end-to-end encryption and generates single-use codes for the transfer. The 'wormhole' command-line tool facilitates transfers with tab-completion for ease of use.
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Python
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Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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There is a gui called wormhole-gui by Jacalz for wormhole-william, which is the Go implementation of magic-wormhole. An Android app called Wormhole William is available on the Play Store. Sending/receiving files between Android and desktop running the original magic-wormhole is also possible.
Windows binary download: https://github.com/aquacash5/magic-wormhole-exe/releases/tag/0.20.0 command line interface.. this looks more like a rabbit hole than a worm hole
Simply the best compromise between security and ease of use. Combine it with wormhole-gui, and you have a simple but powerful app to easily share files between friends.
Although it's still only a CLI tool, I'm baffled at the simplicity this brings for file-sharing across the web. Data is sent without a middleman (aside from a small string identifying the computer sending the data) and encrypted.
Secure, reliable, and occasionally, depending on your PAKE passphrase, fun!