Show HN: Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing

• storage-foundation-api-explainer

  1 32 4.7

  Discontinued Explainer showcasing a new web storage API, NativeIO [Moved to: https://github.com/WICG/storage-foundation-api-explainer] (by fivedots)

  

We went to absurd lengths to make Wormhole fast and performant.

We use streaming encryption (specifically, the Encrypted Content-Encoding standard also used by the now defunct Firefox Send) so that we can keep memory utilization flat, no matter how large the file.

We take the end-to-end encrypted file data and simultaneously stream it to browser storage and our servers. When a downloader shows up before the file is fully uploaded, we use the browser copy of the data to stream your files to the downloader using WebRTC. This means that they can start downloading even before the files have been uploaded.

Specifically, we use the WebTorrent protocol (which I created). All file data is end-to-end encrypted before leaving the device. It's encrypted yet again in transit by TLS or WebRTC, and also while at rest on our servers.

We use a combination of browser storage options, depending on which is fastest and the amount of available disk space. We choose from the following storage strategies:

- Storage Foundation API (fastest performance, experimental API, Chrome only for now, https://github.com/fivedots/storage-foundation-api-explainer)

• magic-wormhole

  74 18,180 8.1 Python

  get things from one computer to another, safely

  

Is this related to the existing Magic Wormhole file transfer application (which is called "wormhole" on the command line)?

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

• InfluxDB

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• webwormhole

  9 1,777 0.0 Go

  Peer authenticated WebRTC.

• OnionShare

  130 6,037 9.5 Python

  Securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network

  

As it is a beautiful piece of technology, in this context I have to mention https://onionshare.org/

It is p2p file transfer without a central server required. All done on top of TOR network.

TOR routing is overall a great tech to play around with

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