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Osewa – An open-source alternative to SSH and Mosh

22 points dkpk 1 hour ago 15 comments

mellosouls 51 minutes ago | parent

Tangential feedback: As clever as it might be, the website made me pull back when opening and drilling in on mobile, quite disorienting.

vermon 48 minutes ago | parent

Aren't ssh and mosh open-source or what does that mean?

cassianoleal 42 minutes ago | parent

I had the same thought. Probably bad phrasing, the author might not be a native English speaker.

ralgozino 31 minutes ago | parent

no- native speaker here (Spanish mother tongue), I read it as "an alternative, that is open source, to ...", no implication that the other options are not open source

0x00cl 29 minutes ago | parent

It means that Osewa is open-source. I suppose that its possible for SSH alternatives to exist that are not open-source, which is why its worded as "An open-source alternative to...".

yellow_lead 46 minutes ago | parent

Here's the github: https://github.com/rjyo/osewa

every commit has claude as an author (judge as you may)

Security:

> Where ssh is ahead is age: OpenSSH has decades of audits and osewa has none yet,

I think this is most important when concerning remote connections to your computer. though, that doesn't mean we should never improve.

otabdeveloper4 38 minutes ago | parent

> vibe-coded SSH

What's the use case? Because the existing SSH doesn't have enough exploits and security holes?

hypfer 24 minutes ago | parent

Another name to put on the industry blacklist, thanks

nannal 44 minutes ago | parent

Finally an open source alternative to ssh

maeln 39 minutes ago | parent

The limitation of SSH and Mosh are real, and SSH over Quic is not a novel idea but a good one. But SSH is a *highly critical* piece of software. A security issue in SSH is basically like giving the keys to the whole kingdom. In such a critical environment, I highly doubt a slop-coded "SSH but on Quic" will be well received. And you can already do that with Iroh and dumbpipe minus the slop code.

Aeolun 7 minutes ago | parent

I think it’s really interesting that at the same time postgres is delayed because agents are finding so many more vulnerabilities than normal reviewers, we have people crying that the same code those agents review is slop.

hypfer 29 minutes ago | parent

Something as essential to security like ssh should probably not be reinvented as AI slop like this for most if not all use-cases.

tomkarho 26 minutes ago | parent

But it's written in Rust so it's all safe. /s

As an aside: it looks like they really are trying replace everything on the stack with Rust variants.

frumiousirc 21 minutes ago | parent

One of the main features of mosh is that it keeps local tty state and can do state transfer and update with the remote pty. This lets the user continue to type and see a (local) echo even when transport is lost. A mosh comparison on typing latency benchmark is notably missing and this entire feature goes unmentioned.

markush_ 10 minutes ago | parent

A lot of things here look directionally right, like using QUIC and separating session from connection. However as others said the security implications of this make it almost unusable for production systems. It’s also unclear how often bad connection and roaming is a problem for real world usage. On the session side I think applications like Rex from Superlogical are going to build similar functionality on existing protocols