Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code \ Anthropic

kept by eddie oct 22

Claude identified 493 attack-surface issues across 25 open-source projects, including 4,500 lines of needlessly reachable pre-authentication code in OpenSSH, showing automated reduction can improve security.

Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and nginx
The article shows how to create self‑hosted HTTP tunnels using only OpenSSH remote port forwarding and nginx’s secure_link module to produce shareable, expiring HTTPS URLs.
also on OpenSSH, #security, #open-source
A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
This piece explains SSH local and remote port forwarding with practical examples and a visual cheat sheet for accessing private network services.
also on OpenSSH, #security