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by matthews2 524 days ago
You still authenticate and kick off the Mosh session via SSH, so it shouldn't be any worse than plain SSH.

> Mosh doesn't listen on network ports or authenticate users. The mosh client logs in to the server via SSH, and users present the same credentials (e.g., password, public key) as before. Then Mosh runs the mosh-server remotely and connects to it over UDP.

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> Mosh doesn't listen on network ports

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> ... Then Mosh runs the mosh-server remotely and connects to it over UDP.

Are UDP sockets immune from port scanning? Regardless of the answer to that, the sentence should be rewritten because it sounds like nonsense as is