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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
by feross 6y ago
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.
- wolverine876 6y agoThis 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.
- Klonoar 6y agoIt'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.
- lburton 6y agoThere is also another - webwormhole https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole / https://webwormhole.io/ https://webwormhole.io/