magic-wormhole / magic-wormhole/fowl

Support UCSPI

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enhancement
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Description

It was suggested that supporting UCSPI would be good.

See here: https://cr.yp.to/proto/ucspi.txt

Essentially this means "use pipes instead of local TCP sockets". This would be interesting to support for sure, and a nice design.
Probably means "no windows support" (for this method). Oh well.

Definitely somewhat cleaner, but my experiments with paired Unix sockets didn't make me happy. (I didn't know about this spec and implementations at the time though).

Certainly worth experimenting with and/or supporting (optionally) as a way to read / write streams.

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Research direction

No file or test is named in the issue. Start by reading the UCSPI specification at https://cr.yp.to/proto/ucspi.txt and reviewing fowl's current stream transport design; done would mean an experimentally validated, optional UCSPI-based way to read and write streams, with the Windows limitation documented.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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