SSH3: SSH using HTTP/3 and QUIC

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  • ssh3

    SSH3: faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3, checkout our article here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08396 and our Internet-Draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-michel-ssh3/

  • There is now an open issue: https://github.com/francoismichel/ssh3/issues/79

  • quicssh

    SSH over QUIC

  • SSH over QUIC exists: https://github.com/moul/quicssh.

    I don't see any advantage of layering HTTP/3 here. It adds more friction, and the only advantage it brings is being able to "hide" the SSH server over a URL path. I guess x.509 certificates would be fine, but SSH hostkeys, SSHFP or TOFU is enough and far more secure (because it implicitly pins the server public key).

    It's a relatively new project from the looks of it, so I'd definitely not use it anywhere half important having to create something interesting with QUIC and HTTP/3.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • wstunnel

    Tunnel all your traffic over Websocket or HTTP2 - Bypass firewalls/DPI - Static binary available

  • If you want to tunnel UDP (WireGuard) or TCP (SSH) over WebSocket protocol, check out https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel

  • monopiped

    A reinterpretation of spiped using monocypher

  • Also https://github.com/nnathan/monopiped. Just plugging my own project.

  • ssh_pki

    PKI support for SSH certificates

  • If hosts are configured with SSH certificates as part or their setup, you can definitely skip TOFU and determine trust on the first connection. That won't work for the "I need to connect to a random IP address" scenario, but any cloud server exposing SSH can be configured with a certificate signed by a company/personal SSH certificate authority.

    You could configure something delightfully atrocious like https://github.com/mjg59/ssh_pki but I think for most use cases where you connect to loads of SSH servers, host keys and certificate authorities will work just fine.

  • sslh

    Applicative Protocol Multiplexer (e.g. share SSH and HTTPS on the same port)

  • That already has a (brutal) solution now - sslh https://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh/README.html - the current version is more sophisticated, but it was originally just a perl script that would send the connection to sshd or the https web server, based on regex matching on an initial string (and I probably timing out and going to sshd if it didn't see one? Something like that, I haven't dug out the old code to check.)

  • pico

    hacker labs - open source and managed web services leveraging SSH (by picosh)

  • SNI is absolutely needed. Over at https://pico.sh we have to request an IP for each ssh server even though from a resource perspective we really only need 1 VM. It increases the complexity of our deployments and overall makes us want to figure out how to merge all of our SSH apps into one.

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  • pam_oidc

    pam_oidc authenticates users with an OpenID Connect (OIDC) token.

  • For oidic there's at least:

    https://github.com/salesforce/pam_oidc

    https://github.com/EOSC-synergy/ssh-oidc

  • ssh-oidc

    Documentation for SSH with OIDC

  • For oidic there's at least:

    https://github.com/salesforce/pam_oidc

    https://github.com/EOSC-synergy/ssh-oidc

  • openssh-portable

    Portable OpenSSH

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