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Benefit that I'm looking for:

  • Tor is slow. When SSH'ing over Tor doing even the basic things takes a lot of time and concentration
  • Especially painful are: editing a file or a mistyped command line because when finding the spot to edit you can't use the keyboard repeat functions and end up counting how many places to shift
  • Mosh solves this problem by editing text on the client side cache and reconciling with the server in the background

The issue is:

  • Tor does not support UDP
  • Mosh does not support TCP

I could not find a guide. This one came close yet it runs some communication over the regular Internet which kills the privacy that Tor offers.

Aleksandr Levchuk
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    It seems like you did your research! That’s awesome. However, I wonder how you arrive at this conclusion: “Seems like it should be easy to tunnel mosh traffic over Tor.” — because from what I can see it’s actually the opposite. It can never work. By tunneling Mosh over TCP you’d throw away all the benefits it offers. – Daniel B Nov 28 '20 at 12:42
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    By tunneling over TCP/SSH I'd still have the client side text editing that I'm describing. I'm ok with throwing away mosh's roaming benefit. – Aleksandr Levchuk Nov 28 '20 at 12:45
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    I'm actually not sure whether Mosh's SSP protocol would sensibly work over TCP, either. It would make more sense to take _just_ the local editing part (which has nothing to do with Mosh in itself) and implement it at terminal emulator level. – u1686_grawity Nov 28 '20 at 13:04
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    Yea, I'm interested to in the Mosh client's "Instant local echo and line editing" https://mosh.org/ - is there is a way to tunnel / VPN the client-server traffic for SSP without modifying mosh? – Aleksandr Levchuk Nov 30 '20 at 01:38
  • Any updates here? Still not possible? @AleksandrLevchuk – nisc Aug 02 '21 at 04:52

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