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You're right, we probably shouldn't use SSH to microwave our food.

But a lot of things where we use HTTP today, we could be using SSH if we had better library support. Some more ideas towards the end of the post.



Someone has to be running NetBSD on their microwave owen. I remember a toaster story.

http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php


> we could be using SSH if we had better library support

It's the firewall rules, not library availability.


Tunnel SSH over HTTP, best (worst) of both worlds :)

(I have tried this; it is both useful and terrible)


Or you could just run `sshd` on port 443.


But this would fail on many proxies, and any firewall that was aware of the protocol.


Indeed. And more generally, using some of the SSH concepts on the web such as public key authentication.




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