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I had very low expectations of this until I ssh'd into 2ton.com.au. Wow, this is fantastic. It really brings my mind back into the BBS days.


Admittedly, I am no webguy, haha, my skills lie in old-school things... apologies if the web front doesn't do it justice


SSH2 specs are pretty clear about authentication methods. We (meaning me, the service provider) can accept or deny, negotiate any number of methods. With sshtalk, since all of the comms happen post-Perfect-Forward-Secrecy DH group exchange, I figure there is zero benefit for an anonymous chat service to remand any form of auth whatsoever, and sshtalk as I built it embodies that perfectly. It is not meant to authenticate YOU, it is meant to do the opposite of that, the only reason you know it is me you are talking to is because of domain inference and that I am @Sysop per the code itself. :-) all of these things I thought were good things.


How does your SSHD setup work? Seeing that you allow passwordsless and keyless login.


Weird, I meant to do my last post in reply to this, sorry it isn't inline correctly.


Thanks - I now see that you implemented the ssh server functionality yourself. I am now busy reading the source code for HeavyThing including the code relating to SSH.




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