mosh

[Bruce Dawson]

Just keep in mind the security risk inherent in sessions unused for a 
long time - like if the laptop was stolen. Or worse, someone found it 
(maybe while you were in a bathroom), sent an incriminating message/data 
from it - and it was attributed to you and your "secure" laptop - and it 
never left your possession.

Worse things have happened to good people.

--Bruce

On 04/18/2012 04:25 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> Chip Marshall<chip at 2bithacker.net>  writes:
>> Thought I'd share this: http://mosh.mit.edu/
>>
>> It's a remote terminal program (like SSH or telnet) but designed
>> to allow for mobility. Rather than sending the whole stream
>> across the network, it maintains a screen state on the remote
>> server (like screen) and syncs up the local display as needed.
>>
>> I've been using it for a few days now, and have been pretty
>> impressed, roaming seamlessly between wired and wireless
>> networks, between home and work, without losing my session has
>> been pretty nice.
> This all sounds very familiar....
>
> You cited the `SSH + Screen' parts; but even the `roaming without
> losing your session' bit..., that reminds me that there used to be
> a project called "rocks" (as in `solid as a', but the name also
> standing for `Reliable SOCKets'). I think it was supposed to provide
> a posix-compatibility wrapper of some sort. A friend of mine
> decided to test it by:
>
>      * SSH'ing over rocks from his laptop in MA to a server in the sky;
>      * Putting the laptop to sleep;
>      * driving from MA to CT;
>      * unsleeping the laptop and connecting to a network in CT.
>
> He said that he was impressed that his session was still live,
> after all of that.
>
> And, if I'm remembering correctly, it should have been possible to use
> rocks with other applications than SSH+Screen.
>
> Oh, here it is:
>
>      http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/rocks/
>