Magic Wormhole

Where it stands

Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works

Read automatically from Magic Wormhole's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured

• Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 449 ms.
• Security4.3 / 53 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy).
• Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
• Transparency1 / 5No privacy policy linked; no pricing page linked.

Not enough discussion yet: 5 classified comments from 2 threads. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.

• Positive

  “When I’m bouncing around getting onboarded on new client/customer machines that disallow syncing (justifiably), magic wormhole is a fabulous way to get my dot files and local env set up in a jiffy. Works well for secure…”

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• Positive

  “croc shouldn't be used if you want security: [1] [2] Magic Wormhole has a good implementation in Go, which is compatible with the original Python implementation (croc is not compatible with magic wormhole). It has…”

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