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I see. I could make it that the server sends the challenge data for all of the possible types of POW/Captcha/Auth that it supports. The client then picks one and...

> Note also that the proposed "abilities and then welcome" dance could be used to note support for Dilation or Seeds and other future protocol enhancements. Uhm, I think you...

Thanks, this is convincing.

Yes, I have not forgotten about this. My plan is to wait for #12 merged, and then rebase on top of that with the PoW changes taken out.

@meejah I've rebased and adapted to the latest changes. There are still a few open questions to resolve, but please have a look at it first.

@meejah I've rebased and adapted to the latest changes. There are still a few open questions to resolve, but please have a look at it first.

One other question that just came up: What's the purpose of the `error` field? Where is it actually used, and what for? I think its main purpose got superseded by...

In order to not derail this thread too much, I opened https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole-protocols/issues/15 about error handling instead.

Thanks for the review > I still see benefits in keeping layers distinct, or at least describing them that way. […] > We don't have to strictly follow what's already...

> The feature of sending text messages (without a transit connection), on the other hand, got removed."