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magic-wormhole-0.23.0

securely transfer data between computers

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Description

Get things from one computer to another, safely. This package provides a library and a command-line tool named `wormhole`, which makes it possible to get arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another. The two endpoints are identified by using identical "wormhole codes": in general, the sending machine generates and displays the code, which must then be typed into the receiving machine. The codes are short and human-pronounceable, using a phonetically-distinct wordlist. The receiving side offers tab-completion on the codewords, so usually only a few characters must be typed. Wormhole codes are single-use and do not need to be memorized.

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Ports path
net/magic-wormhole
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Categories
net, lang/python
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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