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Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by carloscabanero »

ehPReth wrote: post #7

Does it allow you to verify fingerprints? [Hopefully with the new & improved case-sensitive SHA256 format as well? :)]

If I remember, fingerprint was verified using libssh2, but I do not think they do SHA256 yet. Tried to look in their documentation but didn't find it. Would be a great addition too.

Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by vesak »

Marvellous! I tried an iPad Pro about half a year ago, but the lack of a good ssh/mosh client made me return it. Perhaps I'll need to check it out again -- especially the smaller Pro seems like it could be a fine choice now for a portable terminal.

(I did try Panic back then -- I thought it was quite awkward)

Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by matt_wulfeck »

Does anyone know if I have the option to import and SSH private key and whether or not that data is stored in the secure enclave? If so this would be very valuable for working on the go, but I'm very weary of the security if it will be used for work.

I'd love to see some documentation regarding he security, and some proof that keys are not exportable.

Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by carloscabanero »

matt_wulfeck wrote: post #13

Does anyone know if I have the option to import and SSH private key and whether or not that data is stored in the secure enclave? If so this would be very valuable for working on the go, but I'm very weary of the security if it will be used for work. I'd love to see some documentation regarding he security, and some proof that keys are not exportable.

It allows to import an SSH key. When doing that, the public key is stored in disc, and the private key is sent to Keychain (since iOS 7 or 8 encrypted with the Secure Enclave), and only a reference is stored. In this way keys are not exportable or sent to the backup. We use UICKeyChainStore for that, and can check the code yourself too :)

Re: Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros

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Post by throwanem »

carloscabanero wrote: post #4
rhinoceraptor wrote: post #2

How does it compare to Panic's Prompt?

Three things: - Mosh & SSH support: In Prompt and any other iOS ssh client, connections break every 3 minutes. With Mosh that isn't a problem. - Full external keyboard support: Alt as Esc, Caps as Ctrl, you can have your terminal as you do in your desktop/laptop. - Speed and rendering: Blink uses Google's HTerm, so it is faster and you can add your own themes and fonts.

Mosh and caps lock remap are the killer features here over Prompt.

I don't care about the former, having never needed it - when I need to shell in from my phone, it's invariably for some quick, synchronous action that doesn't take long enough that I need to background it and do something else for a while without the socket timing out. But if that is your use case, Prompt will constantly frustrate you.

Remapping Caps to Control, on the other hand, is absolutely brilliant, and something whose absence in iOS I've regretted since I bought my first iPod Touch. It'd be ideal to have the option at the system level, as in OS X, but absent that, a terminal emulator that can do it is a lot better than nothing - it's just a shame Blink has come along so many years after I gave up trying to use my iPad as a laptop replacement.

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