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Comment by wolverine876 | Hacker News Reader

Is this related to the existing Magic Wormhole encrypted file transfer application (which is called "wormhole" on the command line)?

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

Here's an HN discussion of it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14649727

An LWN article:

https://lwn.net/Articles/692061/

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Yeah, this name collision is kind of odd.

From what I see elsewhere it's a custom implementation, but it feels like it wouldn't take much googling to find existing literature (i.e, magic wormhole).

Considering there's already a few MW clients, this being not compatible is... likely going to be confusing.

There's no relation to magic-wormhole. wormhole.app is an independent design and implementation. It's a similar in spirit to Firefox Send (and uses the same ECE streaming encryption that they did). Our design supports instant streaming (instant share link, downloader can start downloading before upload is finished) and peer-to-peer transfer (based on the WebTorrent protocol, which I created).

The word "wormhole" seems to be used in many different tools. For example, try running `brew info wormhole`. You don't get magic-wormhole or wormhole.app but something else entirely.

This isn't a crowded namespace, relative to many other domains. File transfer isn't setting SV and Wall Street on fire. It may look to some like you are capitalizing on Magic Wormhole's reputation, and whether you intend to or not, you may be doing that - people will confuse them.

It's worth noting that your comment makes slightly more sense when viewed with the original comment it's responding to, which said it's a crowded namespace already. Not sure why the edit happened.

There is also another - webwormhole https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole / https://webwormhole.io/

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