Warp Pipe

Warning: this is a very rough work-in-progress!

Warp pipe lets you securely create named pipes (fifos) between computers, allowing you to send or receive data asynchronously.

Use Cases

Secure Password Passing

Send from clipboard:

pbpaste | warp_to coworker_a

Receive to clipboard

warp_from coworker_b | pbcopy

Perform operation on file

Instead of asking for things, waiting, manually grabbing it, and acting on it, you can define what you want to do, wait, and then have it happen automatically.

warp_from coworker_a | import_data_using_config

warp_to coworker_b < ~/Files/the-one-he-needs

Installation

npm install -g warp-pipe

You'll need warp_server running to accept incoming connections.

Authentication

A safe warp pipe requires mutual authentication between the client and server. To start, have the server dump its public key to share with the clients:

warp_server_key > ./servePublicKey

Next, the client will need to register the server:

warp_register <name> -h <hostname> -p <port> < ./serverPublicKey > ./publicKeyToShare

And finally, the server will need to register the client:

warp_authorize <name> < ./publicKeyThatWasShared > ./serverPublicKey

Once this is set up, you can read from warp_from <name> or write to warp_to <name> as if they were local files.

To illustate the entire flow for the same computer:

warp_server_key | warp_register test -h localhost | warp_authorize test echo "hello" | warp_to test; warp_from test