quicssh

😄 quicssh is a QUIC proxy that allows to use QUIC to connect to an SSH server without needing to patch the client or the server.

Architecture

Standard SSH connection

┌───────────────────────────────────────┐             ┌───────────────────────┐
│                  bob                  │             │         wopr          │
│ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ │             │ ┌───────────────────┐ │
│ │           ssh user@wopr           │─┼────tcp──────┼▶│       sshd        │ │
│ └───────────────────────────────────┘ │             │ └───────────────────┘ │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘             └───────────────────────┘

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SSH Connection proxified with QUIC

┌───────────────────────────────────────┐             ┌───────────────────────┐
│                  bob                  │             │         wopr          │
│ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ │             │ ┌───────────────────┐ │
│ │ssh -o ProxyCommand "quicssh client│ │             │ │       sshd        │ │
│ │     --addr %h:4545" user@wopr     │ │             │ └───────────────────┘ │
│ │                                   │ │             │           ▲           │
│ └───────────────────────────────────┘ │             │           │           │
│                   │                   │             │           │           │
│                process                │             │  tcp to localhost:22  │
│                   │                   │             │           │           │
│                   ▼                   │             │           │           │
│ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ │             │┌─────────────────────┐│
│ │  quicssh client --addr wopr:4545  │─┼─quic (udp)──▶│   quicssh server    ││
│ └───────────────────────────────────┘ │             │└─────────────────────┘│
└───────────────────────────────────────┘             └───────────────────────┘

Usage

$ quicssh -h
NAME:
   quicssh - A new cli application

USAGE:
   quicssh [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

VERSION:
   0.0.0

COMMANDS:
     server
     client
     help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --help, -h     show help (default: false)
   --version, -v  print the version (default: false)

Client

$ quicssh client -h
NAME:
   quicssh client -

USAGE:
   quicssh client [command options] [arguments...]

OPTIONS:
   --addr value  (default: "localhost:4242")
   --help, -h    show help (default: false)

Server

$ quicssh server -h
NAME:
   quicssh server -

USAGE:
   quicssh server [command options] [arguments...]

OPTIONS:
   --bind value  (default: "localhost:4242")
   --help, -h    show help (default: false)

Install

$ go get -u moul.io/quicssh

Resources

• https://korben.info/booster-ssh-quic-quicssh.html

License

© 2019-2023 Manfred Touron - Apache-2.0 License