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TinySSH is a small SSH server using NaCl, TweetNaCl

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Re: TinySSH is a small SSH server using NaCl, TweetNaCl

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Post by maxcoder4 »

themoonisachees wrote: post #5
k8sToGo wrote: post #4

What is the difference between this and dropbear ssh?

I don't think there's much of one. The concept in itself isn't really useful, I've never seen someone go "you know the real problem with sshd? It's too bloated". It is slightly useful to put in smaller devices that don't have much space but I think it still relies on top many linux facilities to be an appropriate fix for that too. Still, cool project.

Dropbear ssh is very useful when you have a full disk encryption on a remote server and want to be able to decrypt it after a reboot.

Re: TinySSH is a small SSH server using NaCl, TweetNaCl

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Post by Nextgrid »

maxcoder4 wrote: post #11
themoonisachees wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think there's much of one. The concept in itself isn't really useful, I've never seen someone go "you know the real problem with sshd? It's too bloated". It is slightly useful to put in smaller devices that don't have much space but I think it still relies on top many linux facilities to be an appropriate fix for that too. Still, cool project.

Dropbear ssh is very useful when you have a full disk encryption on a remote server and want to be able to decrypt it after a reboot.

There's technically no reason OpenSSHd can't also be used in this context. Maybe 2 decades ago there was a legitimate performance/disk space reason which is why Dropbear was preferred for this use case (and the convention remains to do this day), but nowadays the couple megabytes of difference in your initrd between using Dropbear and OpenSSH won't matter.

Re: TinySSH is a small SSH server using NaCl, TweetNaCl

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Post by latexr »

CarRamrod wrote: post #15

>easy auditable - TinySSH has less than 100000 words of code Is approximately one hundred thousand words really easily auditable?

> approximately one hundred thousand words

According to the index page, the current release is closer to half of that at 62989 words.

Which is (allegedly, don’t trust the number too much) as long as 2001: A Space Odyssey.

https://www.readinglength.com/book/isbn-0451452739

Not a long book, but in the context of code I wouldn’t consider that easily auditable.

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