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.

  • Limonene@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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.deOP
      3·
      6 days ago

      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.