wormhole-william-mobile

For sending files between my phone (Android) and my son's iPad, I use: Wormhole William (Android): https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile Destiny (iOS): https://github.com/LeastAuthority/destiny For interoperability, don't use Destiny's default servers. After you install Destiny, change the config to the standard Magic Wormhole servers: Mailbox: ws://relay.magic-wormhole.io:4000/v1 Transit Relay: tcp://transit.magic-wormhole.io:4001

This looks awesome. For sending files between my phone (Android) and my son's iPad, I use: Android: Wormhole William (https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile) iOS: Destiny (https://github.com/LeastAuthority/destiny) Some drawbacks to my current approach: 1. Destiny needs to be configured to use the standard Magic Wormhole servers (just once, after installation): https://github.com/LeastAuthority/destiny/issues/259#issueco... 2. Initiating a transfer requires out of band communication and some copy+paste.

Wormhole William provides an APK: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile/releases... On Windows and Linux, there’s RiftShare which has a gui: https://riftshare.app/

Yeah the Android version has been out for a few years[1][2]. There's an iOS target that works as well, I've just never published it to the app store. Every time I start that process I get annoyed at how hostile Apple is to open source developers and give up. Hopefully I can at least distribute a side loadable binary when that becomes a thing for EU users. [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor... [2]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

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

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/J

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

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.

croc 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 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

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

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

> 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...