[sargun]

I wish that SSH would be disaggregated further. SSH has become the suite du jour for file transfer, remote access, and a handful of other things. Unfortunately, simultaneously, innovations have been made in transport protocols and elsewhere in the stack that we're unable to take advantage of.

SFTP is a great example of a protocol which has a discrete server (look! There's sftp-server on your computer. Nothing prevents it from running over TLS, or a web socket). I wish that this was the way the entire suite worked. I wish the multiplexing, and underlying shell implementation was transport agnostic (perhaps relying on SOCK_STREAM, or SOCK_SEQPACKET semantics), and the authentication, encryption, etc was its own thing.

[nonrandomstring]

These are good asks. After xz I worry a little about how many eggs are in the ssh basket.

[fragmede]

xz? regreSSHion should make you lose sleep!

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/regresshion-vulnera...

[nonrandomstring]

Good mention of that one too. The article needed two extra lines, one reminding to use ssh -V and one to remind us to switch off banners.