SMRTR ProgrammingAug 4, 2026Hacker News

Pigeons: SSH Anywhere, Built on Iroh

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Pigeons is a tool that lets you SSH into any machine behind a NAT or firewall — no port forwarding, VPN, or bastion host needed. It uses Ed25519 public keys as endpoint IDs and builds an encrypted QUIC tunnel via the iroh peer-to-peer network with automatic NAT traversal. Standard SSH auth still guards access; pigeons just handles delivery.

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