I believe SSH is somewhat underrated as a Freedom Tech protocol.
It is stable and reliable, features built-in pubkey authentication, does not require certificate provisioning, and can establish multiple secure data channels for almost any purpose.
It sounds like an excellent protocol to build on.
Totally agree.
Like all command line tools underrated.
This is our shared culture.
Cypherpunk as fuck
And an atlas protocol, holding the world on its shoulders.
Transfer files, make a quick VPN, open a remote app locally, it's got all kinds of tricks. I love ssh.
Michael Lucas’ SSH Mastery is solid gold.
It's very nice. 20 years ago I used it in school to store files and run software on my school computer via a boot with Damn Small Linux flash drive. It was so cool! Or I would use the Windows system with PuTTY.
Still I use it and a friend turned me on to mtux which is really nice for multiple shells through the same ssh instance.
Also having the public and private keys exchanged ahead of time make for nice no password logins.
if we just make a bip-340 signature algorithm support for it we can even use our npubs
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Its the most used freedom tech protocol I guess 😀
Yes, I love it! Though sometimes it's hard to setup a reliable reverse tunnel.
True, it's fiddly, but that you can do it at all is pretty cool.
Yes, widely widely adopted, tested, reliable, secure, easy to implement
Hmm. I like this framing.
The striking thing about ssh to me was always its use of TOFU (trust on first use). This is one of those things that sounds really janky and weak, but is in reality unreasonably effective because it avoids the maintenance, and dangers, of central points of failure.
I use it all the time!
I've been using it for local file transfers; it's way better than SMB, though I suppose that's not hard.
