Also, tab-completion won't work, top won't work, control characters

won't work, vim won't work, etc etc...
-HKS
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:00 AM,   wrote:

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> Just off the top of my head (I have to check the SSH protocol yet): Why not encipher all accumulated keystrokes up to the  key as a block send them instead of sending each keystroke as it is typed? This shrouds the typist's characteristics.

> In addition, if the cipher is a block cipher, padding is added to make the number of bits a multiple of the block size. Mandatory padding with a nonce may help to shroud the number of keystrokes.

> The drawback is that the padding part could mean that we are no longer compatible with the SSH protocol.