wormhole-william-mobile VS pcp

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.

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

Wormhole William (version 8): End-to-end encrypted file transfer for Android. An Android Magic Wormhole client

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.

I’m currently working on a new version of pcp [0]. Based on croc, magic-wormhole and the likes it doesn’t require a relay. It uses the IPFS DHT as a discovery point to connect two machines. Haven’t touched the currently released code in two years but the new hole punching capabilities of libp2p show promising result so I’m working on a new version.

[0] https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp

I was wondering about this recently too. I found PCP - Peer Copy. Probably not secure enough to use in production. https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp

I‘ve also built a file transfer tool (CLI) with emphasis on decentralization. It’s a fully decentralized p2p file transfer tool based on libp2p:

https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp

I‘m currently trying to make it interoperable with https://share.ipfs.io/#/ which resembles the functionality of the posted tool.

https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp It's really really good on the technical side, though it's still a WIP and has no GUI yet (shouldn't be very hard to implement though).