ELI5: what are rendezvous/mailbox servers and transit relay servers in the magic wormhole protocol?

• magic-wormhole

  74 18,180 8.1 Python

  get things from one computer to another, safely

  

• magic-wormhole-mailbox-server

  1 150 5.3 Python

  the rendezvous/mailbox server for magic-wormhole clients

  

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• magic-wormhole-transit-relay

  1 150 5.1 Python

  Transit Relay server for Magic-Wormhole

  

• portal

  16 1,124 7.4 Go

  Portal is a quick and easy command-line file transfer utility from any computer to another. (by SpatiumPortae)

  

I have developed a similar tool called portal which implements some of the same ideas. The mailbox server is what keeps track of connections between senders and receivers. For portal, this mailbox would store information about what type of connection they are trying to make (direct or relayed), and the hashed password, among other things.

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