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Brian Warner - Magic Wormhole- Simple Secure File Transfer - PyCon 2016.mp4

PyCon 2016 · 44K views · 2016-06-20 · 33:24

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Overview

Brian Warner, author of magic-wormhole, presents the tool at PyCon 2016. He explains how a few secret words let two computers securely transfer files, covering the cryptography (NaCl, SPAKE2) and library use.

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Recommended as the author's own explanation of the design and security of magic-wormhole.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2018–2023

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CryptographyPython, Ruby & scripting languagesSecurity & hacking
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touseefliaqat · 2023-12 · Recommendation

Magic Wormhole: [LINK] An easy and secure file transfer program. I use it almost everyday since I discovered it. Author has a very good video on it at pycon-2016: [VIDEO]

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alecst · 2021-05 · Recommendation

Here's a link from Brain Warner (the author) talking about that: [VIDEO] Hope it helps, it's a good question.

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lixtra · 2019-02 · Recommendation

According to parents nice talk[1] you can add a verify switch that lets you compare the signature of the actual key. So a public authenticated channel is enough. [1] [VIDEO]

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