SSH over QUIC
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quicssh
:smile: quicssh is a QUIC proxy that allows to use QUIC to connect to an SSH server without needing to patch the client or the server.
Architecture
Standard SSH connection
┌───────────────────────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────┐
│ bob │ │ wopr │
│ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ ┌───────────────────┐ │
│ │ ssh user@wopr │─┼────tcp──────┼▶│ sshd │ │
│ └───────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ └───────────────────┘ │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────┘SSH Connection proxified with QUIC
┌───────────────────────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────┐
│ bob │ │ wopr │
│ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ ┌───────────────────┐ │
│ │ssh -o ProxyCommand "quicssh client│ │ │ │ sshd │ │
│ │ --addr %h:4545" user@wopr │ │ │ └───────────────────┘ │
│ │ │ │ │ ▲ │
│ └───────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ process │ │ tcp to localhost:22 │
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ ▼ │ │ │ │
│ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ │ │┌─────────────────────┐│
│ │ quicssh client --addr wopr:4545 │─┼─quic (udp)──▶│ quicssh server ││
│ └───────────────────────────────────┘ │ │└─────────────────────┘│
└───────────────────────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────┘Usage
$ quicssh -h
NAME:
quicssh - A new cli application
USAGE: quicssh [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]
VERSION: 0.0.0
COMMANDS: server client help, h Shows a list of commands or help for one command
GLOBAL OPTIONS: --help, -h show help (default: false) --version, -v print the version (default: false)
Client
$ quicssh client -h
NAME:
quicssh client -
USAGE: quicssh client [command options] [arguments...]
OPTIONS: --addr value (default: "localhost:4242") --help, -h show help (default: false)
Server
$ quicssh server -h
NAME:
quicssh server -
USAGE: quicssh server [command options] [arguments...]
OPTIONS: --bind value (default: "localhost:4242") --help, -h show help (default: false)
Install
$ go get -u moul.io/quicsshResources
- https://korben.info/booster-ssh-quic-quicssh.html
License
© 2019-2023 Manfred Touron - Apache-2.0 License
