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So @bradfitz when are you releasing https://tailscale.com/connect/ for real? :)

Context for the uninitiated - as a crazy idea on the podcast Security Cryptography Whatever (hosted by tptacek and others less well known on HN) Avery and Brad of tailscale imagined an ssh client in the browser with QR code authentication to SSO to allow you to connect to your tailscale network (over tailscale SSH) from untrusted computers such as internet cafes. (Or mostly untrusted - safe from keyloggers but maybe not from a dedicated active malware that injects into your browser and tries to inject secret commands into your ssh session).

I created a silly PoC here (video instead of link because don't try it for real) https://twitter.com/jgeralnik/status/1487913797155233798 back when tailscale ssh was a secret binary in the tailscale github repo



Actually pretty soon, probably.

It's working. It needs some UI love first and some docs so people know how it works and don't immediately freak out. :)


> when tailscale ssh was a secret binary in the tailscale github repo

That makes it sound like we put a binary in our git repo :) It was its own Go package main that people could run.

It was never a secret. We just didn't advertise it a ton! :)


I didn't mean binary as in "binary blob" but as in "standalone program separate from the tailscale program". Sorry for any confusion :)




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