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SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3

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532 points tempaccount420 | 2 comments | 27 Sep 25 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.005s | source
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Zambyte ◴[27 Sep 25 15:01 UTC] No.45396281[source]▶
I was skeptical of the claim that it's faster than traditional SSH, but the README specifies that it is faster at establishing a connection, and that active connections are the same speed. That makes a lot of sense and seems like a reasonable claim to make.
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1. zielmicha ◴[28 Sep 25 10:35 UTC] No.45403285[source]▶
SSH is actually really slow on high latency high bandwidth links (this is what HPN-SSH patches fix: https://www.psc.edu/hpn-ssh-home/hpn-ssh-faq). It's very apparent if you try running rsync between two datacenters on different contients.

HTTP/3 (and hopefully this project) does not have this problem.

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2. Aachen ◴[28 Sep 25 13:43 UTC] No.45404277[source]▶
Sounds like a complex change to fix a security protocol but, reading the page, it seems to just increase the send buffer, which indeed makes sense for high-latency links