…this is SSH on crack 🙂 Such was my line back during Black Hat 2001; I did all sorts of funky things with OpenSSH. Since then, some major new stuff has come out. Check it out:

• LUFS: The Linux Userspace File System.

  lufsmount sshfs://user@host /mnt/dir

  I’ve been saying for quite some time that ssh2’s sftp was the dark horse network file system of the future. LUFS ain’t perfect — but wow, that’s one hell of a proof of concept.

• JSch: Java Secure Channel

  Java may be an “Internet-Ready Language”. Java may be a “Secure Language”. Now, finally, we can make Java a “Secure-Internet Ready Language”, without having to resort to deploying IPSec. Using JSch, arbitrary Java2 applications can route their normal, insecure traffic, through SSH2, to wherever it needs to go. In other words — no more pain trying to secure and authenticate your Java traffic; just SSH into a host and talk securely to the TCP resources at its disposal. Excellent.