Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc.

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dang · 2h ago
Related. Others?

Spiped – symmetric, encrypted, authenticated pipes between sockets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7539499 - April 2014 (86 comments)

maples37 · 2h ago
> This is similar to 'ssh -L' functionality, but does not use SSH and requires a pre-shared symmetric key.

I already have SSH set up and functional, what advantage does spiped offer?

unsnap_biceps · 9m ago
I'm presuming this is pretty similar to https://www.stunnel.org

We would use stunnel rather than SSH for non-interactive usages. Having an active stunnel running all the time is safer than requiring a full SSH session being active.

0xCMP · 1h ago
iirc spiped uses TLS/OpenSSL for securing the connection, the symmetric key avoids the key-exchange and worrying about certificates, and therefore is better capable of efficiently using the connection than SSH by itself.

Because it's much simpler it's also a good way to expose a system to the internet, although Wireguard with a PSK is a very similar and possibly superior solution.