[0xCMP]

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.

[tptacek]

spiped does not in fact use TLS.

A subthread from 2014:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7540288

[0xCMP]

Ah okay, yea I wasn't sure if I remembered that correctly or not. I double checked it was using OpenSSL and assumed.