Wormhole pairing will start to provide an appid to wormhole on 2021-12-31.
An appid can't be provided now because Debian stable is going to ship a
older version of git-annex that does not provide an appid. Assumption is
that by 2021-12-31, this version of git-annex will be shipped in a Debian
stable release. If that turns out to not be the case, this change will need
to be cherry-picked into the git-annex in Debian stable, or its wormhole
pairing will break.
This commit was sponsored by Thomas Hochstein on Patreon.
This reverts commit 3037feb1bf.
On second thought, this was an overcomplication of what should be the
lowest-level primitive. Let's build bi-directional links at the pairing
level with eg magic wormhole.
Both the local and remote git repositories get remotes added
pointing at one-another.
Makes pairing twice as easy!
Security: The new LINK command in the protocol can be sent repeatedly,
but only by a peer who has authenticated with us. So, it's entirely safe to
add a link back to that peer, or to some other peer it knows about.
Anything we receive over such a link, the peer could send us over the
current connection.
There is some risk of being flooded with LINKs, and adding too many
remotes. To guard against that, there's a hard cap on the number of remotes
that can be set up this way. This will only be a problem if setting up
large p2p networks that have exceptional interconnectedness.
A new, dedicated authtoken is created when sending LINK.
This also allows, in theory, using a p2p network like tor, to learn about
links on other networks, like telehash.
This commit was sponsored by Bruno BEAUFILS on Patreon.
