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[ADDITION] Add Wormhole

Open feross opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

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Thanks for including FilePizza and Instant.io as recommendations for file transfer in the list. (I'm the creator of WebTorrent, which both of those services use!) Instant.io is actually run by me and the WebTorrent team :)

While I recommend both of those services, one shortcoming is that they don't use end-to-end encryption. That's why we built Wormhole (https://wormhole.app/) to fill that gap. I recommend Wormhole over the other services these days.

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Wormhole should go into the "File Drop" category.

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Wormhole lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn't stay online forever. Wormhole uses end-to-end encryption to protect your files so they can never be shared or viewed by anyone but you and the intended recipients. Files are permanently deleted from the server after 24 hours. Wormhole encrypts all files with 128-bit AES-GCM encryption before they leave the browser. You can read more about the security design to learn more.


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feross avatar Apr 05 '22 19:04 feross

Web Torrent has been awesome, so thank you for your effort developing and maintaining it :) Love the sound of E2E encrypted version, so Wormhole sounds very exciting!

Am just trying it out now, and maybe I'm being thick, but I cannot find a link to the GH repo or source. It might be a good future improvement to include that on the homepage, like FilePizza and WebTorrent. In the meantime, is it open source? And if so, would you mind sharing the link, as it's a common name, and I cannot seem to locate it...

And thanks for the detailed info, and for being upfront about your association with the aforementioned services

Lissy93 avatar Apr 05 '22 23:04 Lissy93