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Re:Tailscale SSH by woleium on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @07:44PM (#31843363)
What are the failure modes? Openssh is a well understood risk, this seems... unquantifiable?
Re:Tailscale SSH by tptacek on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:59PM (#31843902)
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.)

Re:Tailscale SSH by woleium on Saturday June 25, 2022 @01:18PM (#31876971)
Sure, but how reliable is it. What are the risks that I'm going to get locked out of a production instance and suffer loss of earnings?