waxwing on Nostr: The striking thing about ssh to me was always its use of TOFU (trust on first use). ...

The striking thing about ssh to me was always its use of TOFU (trust on first use). This is one of those things that sounds really janky and weak, but is in reality unreasonably effective because it avoids the maintenance, and dangers, of central points of failure.

quoting nevent1q…wvtm

I believe SSH is somewhat underrated as a Freedom Tech protocol.

It is stable and reliable, features built-in pubkey authentication, does not require certificate provisioning, and can establish multiple secure data channels for almost any purpose.

It sounds like an excellent protocol to build on.