You could also do something like using a key pair, with the public key
on the server, use this to encrypt the random mosh-server key and then
publish it in a DNS TXT record, then change it every days or
script it so when you start a new mosh-server instance, it generates
another mosh key and then
Thanks all of you for answering my posts, and especially Keith who
listed almost all possible methods. I don't usually reply email in
half a year, except when caught in busines for too long, like now.
2013/7/2 Keith Winstein :
> Pretty much _any_ means of getting the server to start a mosh-server
Hello Weiwu,
The "mosh" wrapper script does use ssh, but only to remotely execute a
"mosh-server" on the server (running as the user) and collect the
session key it prints out.
Others have replaced SSH with HTTPS (the user authenticates with a
password or X.509 certificates and then gets the secr
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On 07/01/2013 05:46 PM, Weiwu Zhang wrote:
> Hello. I believe many are attracted to mosh like me because they
> cannot run ssh, and sad to realize, although advertised as a
> replacement of ssh, mosh depends on ssh.
For starters, man mosh-server and
Hi,
I don't expect that mosh will grow an authentication layer besides SSH
so quickly (and many are happy that mosh uses a well-known,
well-understood and proven system for authentication), but I know
something which may help for this:
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 11:46:33PM +0800, Weiwu Zhang wrote:
Hello. I believe many are attracted to mosh like me because they
cannot run ssh, and sad to realize, although advertised as a
replacement of ssh, mosh depends on ssh.
The reasons users prefer not to use ssh could be because it is plain
out blocked. Like in Iran, or stemed, like in China†.
Nobody