On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:39:29 -0800, John Landahl <john@landahl.org> wrote:

I've hacked up a working implementation of PB over SSH (Conch) if anyone is interested. It's a convienient way to have both transport security and authentication for PB sessions.

I've implemented a version in plain Twisted and one using PEAK+Twisted. The code is a little rough, but if there's any interest I can clean it up for general consumption.

Nice. I would like to use this. -Eric

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 20:39, John Landahl wrote:

I've hacked up a working implementation of PB over SSH (Conch) if anyone is interested. It's a convienient way to have both transport security and authentication for PB sessions.

PB over SSH is... a good idea, but not the way to implement this, exactly. What you'd want is a SSH *transport*. It would allow you to run any twisted protocol over an existing conch SSH connection, transparently, just as you can run over TCP or SSL. In addition this transport should provide a credential object tied to the logged in user so you can use it with cred transparently. Plus a SSH-to-TCP gateway transport that lets you listen or connect using the SSH portforwarding support. Once you've built this, PB over SSH is probably 10 lines of code.