Comment by tptacek
13 hours ago
Not a huge lift to stick a PAKE in this protocol, though I'm dubious that it'd be much of a win. The PAKE + nameplate system in Wormhole makes a lot of sense, because you're doing one very specific thing with that system (moving a file from point A to point B). Here you're booting up servers; you're almost always going to have a non-voice channel to set up with.
You also don't want adversaries to be able to disrupt long-lived streams with bad password guesses, since I think part of Wormhole's security model is it will terminate the session if the other side gets it wrong.