I was looking for a good and quick file transfer method and stumbled upon Warp on Linux (flatpak). It says the app is open source but I did a quick Lemmy search and someone mentioned the protocol magic wormhole is closed.
Even though I found the application very useful, like I can transfer files even when connected to a VPN service, the closed source nature turns me off.
Also when operating without a VPN, wormhole connects via local network, my desktop is behind a firewall, but the transfer still happen! How does it do that without opening a port in f/w?
Any alternate suggestions are welcome as well.
Edit 1. The domain for the magic wormhole relay and transit server that most open source clients (like Warp) use is magic-wormhole.io. I have to check if they really are open source.
Edit 2. There seems to a mention of the magic-wormhole.io domain in their PyCon 2016 presentation.
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testman@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y
can you link to the post that claims the protocol is not open? I'm interested in looking into that
anyway, source for the magic wormhole can be found here: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole which also links to both the Mailbox code and the Transit Relay code.
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y
Yeah totally. Here https://lemmy.world/comment/14783333
Limonene@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
I think that wormhole.app page is different software from magic wormhole (and warp). It just has a similar name. wormhole.app does appear to be proprietary.
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y
Warp uses magic-wormhole.io and my android client uses the same domain for its Rendezvous and Transit servers. I am still learning about what they really are.
So I think the mentioned URLs might be closed source, I don't know. But the default ones that warp use is this magic-wormhole.io (relay and transit) seems to be open source ones.
testman@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
ah yes, that, wormhole.app, that is closed source. (but if I am reading this correctly, some early iteration of it is open source. https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole )
Magic wormhole is a different thing.
Limonene@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I'm not familiar with warp, and couldn't find it with a search. But I did find magic wormhole, and it appears to be MIT licensed, so it is open source. I also searched packages.debian.org and found it, so definitely open source.
As for firewalls: it might only block incoming connections, or has an exception for LAN hosts. I'd have to see the configuration to say more.
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
https://flathub.org/apps/app.drey.Warp
Limonene@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Thanks. I think I found its homepage, is it the same as this? That looks like part of Gnome, so should be open source too. (It's maybe available in your operating system without needing a flatpak, if you would prefer it that way)
anon5621@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Wormhole is not closed source protocol and btw I like croc