logoalt Hacker News

Bender • 07/31/2025 • 2 replies • view on HN

I don't know about using it in the kernel but I would love to see OpenSSH support QUIC so that I get some of the benefits of Mosh [1] while still having all the features of OpenSSH including SFTP, SOCKS, port forwarding, less state table and keep alive issues, roaming support, etc... Could OpenSSH leverage the kernel support?

[1] - https://mosh.org/

Replies

wmf • 07/31/2025

SSH would need a lot of work to replace its crypto and mux layers with QUIC. It's probably worth starting from scratch to create a QUIC login protocol. There are a bunch of different approaches to this in various states of prototyping out there.

➕ show 1 reply
bauruine • 07/31/2025

OpenSSH is an OpenBSD project therefore I guess a Linux api isn't that interesting but I could be wrong ofc.

➕ show 2 replies