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End-to-end encrypted file transfer for Android and iOS. A Magic Wormhole Mobile client.

Language: Go

#58 in Go

#41 in Go

#13 in iOS

#6 in Mobile

Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another | Sep 2023

I made the android† port of Wormhole William[1] specifically to help transfer some encryption keys that I didn't want to ever live unencrypted on a server in the cloud.

[1]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

†: There's also a working iOS port but its not released on the App Store because of how hostile Apple makes that process to open source developers.

Tailscale changes its Android app to support the open source Headscale server | Aug 2022

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That is totally fair. I will say that I got quite a lot of value from being able to see how tailscale-android works when building my own gioui app[0]. I suspect that being able to see the same thing for a modern iOS app would be useful to some small set of developers, even if they couldn't produce a fully working tailscale binary on their own dev machines.

It really does feel like Apple just doesn't care that their app policies are hostile to developers because they have such a strong monopoly on mobile app distribution.

[0]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

GPG-Tui, a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG | May 2021

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TLDR at the bottom.

It seems the answer is Brian Warner's magic-wormhole. You're gonna see lots of file transfer sites with wormhole in their name, but if you want security you should use the original one, which is BW's m-w.

It is implemented in Python [1], so it's hard to install.

So someone made a Go version of it [2] that has binaries for windows, Mac, Linux, BSD etc. But it's command line so maybe not suitable for lay people.

So another person made a GUI for it that also has binaries for all OS [3].

Also there is an android app [4]. Someone needs to implement an iOS one.

[1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/

[2] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/

[3] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/

[4] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile/

TLDR: ask them to install [5] and [6].

[5] https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui/releases/

(click on 'Assets' under 'Latest release' and download the zip or tar.gz for your OS)

[6] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...

Try it, it's usage is cute and really feels like magic.

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Edit: Discussion from few days ago. The creator is in the comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27262193

Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely | May 2021

I have a Magic Wormhole client for Android that I wrote for the occasional sensitive file transfer to and from my phone[0]. I was planning on adding iOS support as well, but Apple's general hostility toward open source apps discouraged me enough to not want to work on that.

[0]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely | May 2021

croc probably shouldn't be used if you want security:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27054885

[2] https://twitter.com/Sc00bzT/status/1396199915638992896

Magic Wormhole has a good implementation in Go, which is compatible with the original Python implementation (croc is not compatible with magic wormhole). It has windows binary and binaries for most of the popular OS.

https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

Binaries: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases

There's GUI: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui

Android app too: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

Support for resuming transfers is planned I think.

Magic-Wormhole: Get Things from One Computer to Another, Safely | May 2021

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croc shouldn't be used if you want security:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27054885

[2] https://twitter.com/Sc00bzT/status/1396199915638992896

https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

Binaries: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases

There's GUI: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui

Android app too: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

Support for resuming transfers is planned I think.

Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work | May 2021

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Magic Wormhole has a good implementation in Go. It has windows binary.

https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

Windows binary: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases/downlo...

There's GUI: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui

Android app too: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

The author is on HN as psanford

The Pinecone Overlay Network | May 2021

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Just for you: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

The Pinecone Overlay Network | May 2021

For Android, there is one from Peter Sanford (psanford on HN). He implemented the Go version of magic-wormhole, which I think is used by people like tptacek. So I guess it can be trusted.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...

https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

One disadvantage is that current magic wormhole doesn't support resume but they plan to implement it.

Another app that you might have heard of is croc, but it doesn't seem to be secure:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27056746

Wormhole-crypto: Streaming encryption based on Encrypted Content-Encoding | Apr 2021

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> if you prefer a locally-installed command line tool and you're sending files to someone who understands the command line

There's at least one good desktop GUI for Magic Wormhole[0]. I've also recently released an Magic Wormhole Android app[1][2].

[0]: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui

[1]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...