August concluded the NGI_Trust-funded MW4ALL 2.0 project, aimed at building an identity-less secure file transfer web application based on the Magic Wormhole protocol. Magic Wormhole is a protocol that allows for the rapid and secure sharing of data between two parties without either needing to know the other’s identity. Files
Least Authority recently participated in a business scale-up bootcamp organized by NGI TETRA. The bootcamp offered us valuable lessons and the honor of being chosen as one of its ‘winners’. NGI (Next Generation Internet) is a program funded by the European Union, supporting a “Human Internet that respects the fundamental values
Something that should be simple—sending files—is surprisingly hard at the moment. Aside from figuring out a reliable tool, whether it supports the file you want to send and whether the recipient can open it, there are also privacy and security concerns. That’s why we started working on the Magic Wormhole
The Problem Sending a file from one computer to another is common and should be simple, but it can be surprisingly complicated, even in 2020. This simple-yet-complicated user story is illustrated in xkcd comic #949. How should you send a file from your computer to someone else’s computer? What security