integrate magic-wormhole for "tahoe magic-folder invite/join" #2805

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meejah · 2016-08-10T16:05:02Z

meejah commented

2016-08-10 16:05:02 +00:00

It would be interesting to use magic-wormhole (https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/) to send and receive the invite codes for magic-folder.

Of course, you could do this already by simply piping the output of tahoe magic-folder invite to wormhome send and the inverse on the other side, but since the invite-codes are secret and need to be transmitted securely it would be nice to have a built-in way to to that and never print out the invite secret in the first place.

It would be interesting to use magic-wormhole (<https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/>) to send and receive the invite codes for magic-folder. Of course, you could do this already by simply piping the output of `tahoe magic-folder invite` to `wormhome send` and the inverse on the other side, but since the invite-codes are secret and need to be transmitted securely it would be nice to have a built-in way to to that and never print out the invite secret in the first place.

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meejah commented

2016-08-10 16:08:32 +00:00

Another use-case for using magic-wormhole would be transmitting the Introducer fURL to someone -- e.g. when they're setting up their client for the first time and connecting to a grid.

This could be baked in to tahoe create-node such that it spits out a wormhole code as part of the create-node. Then, the owner of the grid is told the wormhole code and must type it into some (new) command on the introducer (or a plain "wormhole send" invocation?) that sends the introducer fURL to the invitee.

Another use-case for using magic-wormhole would be transmitting the Introducer fURL to someone -- e.g. when they're setting up their client for the first time and connecting to a grid. This could be baked in to `tahoe create-node` such that it spits out a wormhole code as part of the create-node. Then, the owner of the grid is told the wormhole code and must type it into some (new) command on the introducer (or a plain "wormhole send" invocation?) that sends the introducer fURL to the invitee.