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Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

The article investigates why SSH sends numerous small packets per keystroke, attributing it to 2023 keystroke timing obfuscation. It covers discovery, root cause, remediation (client-side disablement and potential server/library tweaks), and demonstrates significant performance impacts with practical debugging using pcap data and LLMs.

🚀 Service construit par Johan Denoyer