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marcosdumay on Jan 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?

> we could be using SSH if we had better library support

It's the firewall rules, not library availability.

Shish2k on Jan 3, 2015 [–]

Tunnel SSH over HTTP, best (worst) of both worlds :)

(I have tried this; it is both useful and terrible)

bashinator on Jan 3, 2015 | [–]

Or you could just run `sshd` on port 443.

dec0dedab0de on Jan 3, 2015 | | [–]

But this would fail on many proxies, and any firewall that was aware of the protocol.

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