Re:Tailscale SSH
by woleium on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @07:44PM
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What are the failure modes? Openssh is a well understood risk, this seems... unquantifiable?
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Tailscale is a userland process built in a memory-safe language, which leaves you only the SSH protocol cryptography-type vulnerabilities, which are themselves mooted by Tailscale (see downthread for a discussion about why they didn't simply expose rsh instead of ssh).
This is safer than OpenSSH.
(OpenSSH, as a piece of software, is extraordinarily safe, and has one of the best records of any memory-unsafe codebases. But OpenSSH as configurable infrastructure is much less safe; people screw it up all the time.)