Single-use codes, or a peer you keep.
Magic Wormhole moves files with a single-use code that someone types on the receiving machine, from the command line. KEIBIDROP keeps saved peers so there is no code to pass along, it has a GUI as well as a CLI, and it can mount the other machine's folder so you browse it and pull one file.
| KEIBIDROP | Magic Wormhole | |
|---|---|---|
| Interface | GUI and CLI | CLI and a Python library |
| Per-transfer code | No, saved peers | Yes, single-use, typed by hand |
| Browse the other side | Yes, it mounts | No |
| Open a file without receiving the folder | Yes | No |
| Account | None | None |
| Encryption | End to end, X25519 with ML-KEM-1024 | End to end, PAKE |
| Source code | Open, MPL-2.0 | Open, MIT |
| Scriptable | JSON line per command | Python library |
The two sides exchange an 86 character fingerprint once and connect on it afterwards, so a folder you use every week costs nothing to reopen. A Magic Wormhole code is single use and someone has to read it out and type it in.
KEIBIDROP mounts the other machine's folder as a folder on yours, and a read pulls only the bytes it touches, so you open the one file you came for instead of receiving a whole directory. It is a real filesystem, so Premiere, Resolve, Blender, grep and git open a path on it the way they open a local one.
KEIBIDROP is MPL-2.0, so anyone can confirm the key exchange is X25519 with ML-KEM-1024, and a recording taken today has to break both halves to be read once quantum hardware exists.
No. KeibiDrop peers exchange an 86 character fingerprint once and connect on it afterwards. Magic Wormhole codes are single use and typed on the receiving machine.
Yes, and a CLI with a JSON line per command for scripting and agents. Magic Wormhole is a command line tool and a Python library.
Yes. KeibiDrop mounts the folder, so you browse it and pull only the files you open.
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