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Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Paul Boddie" <paul at boddie.org.uk> writes:
> > Whether this solves the questioner's problems remains to be seen, but
> > issues of handling SSH-based communications streams do seem to be
> > addressed.
>
> Actually I don't understand the need for SSH.  This is traffic over a
> LAN, right?  Is all of the LAN traffic encrypted?  That's unusual; SSH
> is normally used to secure connections over the internet, but the
> local network is usually trusted.  Hopefully it's not wireless.

Most places I've worked do use a lot of encryption on the LAN.  Not
everything on the LAN is encrypted (e.g outgoing http connections) but
a lot of things are.  Trusting the whole network is a bad idea, since
it allows a compromise of one machine to turn into a compromise of the
whole LAN.