SSH Tunnel vs ValetFS

SSH Tunnel is the easiest way to tunnel your traffic through your own SSH server on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Version 3.0 is a complete native rewrite with a new VPN engine: route ALL device traffic through your server, keep it running in the background, and reconnect automatically. The old foreground-only limitation is gone. TWO ENGINES - VPN engine: system-wide tunnel built on Apple's Network Extension. Works in the background, survives restarts, and restores itself after reboots and network changes (On Demand). - Proxy engine: a local SOCKS5 proxy with a PAC file for browsers, third-party apps, or sharing the tunnel with other devices on your Wi-Fi. Run several tunnels at once. FEATURES - Dynamic port forwarding (SOCKS5 proxy), like "ssh -D" - Local port forwarding, like "ssh -L 80:intra.example.com:80 gw.example.com" - Password, private key, and keyboard-interactive (2FA/OTP) authentication - Keys: ed25519, ECDSA, RSA (rsa-sha2), OpenSSH and PuTTY .ppk formats, import from file - Modern ciphers and OpenSSH 8.8+ compatibility - Host key fingerprint verification - In-app browser that uses the tunnel (iOS) - Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) URL with custom PAC rules - Live transfer statistics and connection logs - Connection export & import - Passcode & Face ID protection - Idle disconnect timer - Native menu bar app on macOS, included with your purchase - Dark mode. No ads, no subscriptions, no accounts. YOUR SERVER, YOUR DATA SSH Tunnel connects only to a server YOU provide. There are no accounts and no servers we operate: your traffic flows directly between your device and your own SSH server. We never see, collect, or sell any of it. You need your own SSH server to use this application. Support: support@ssh-tunnel-ios.com

Agents that read a repository issue, a web page or a tool description have been talked into reading credentials out loud. The key was never the target — the file it sat in was. A key written into a dotfile, an environment variable or a CI runner is readable by everything on that machine, forever, long after the job is done. ValetFS is the other way round. Your secrets live on your iPhone, in the Keychain, behind Face ID. When a tool on your computer needs one, ValetFS lends it — into memory, never to disk — and takes it back when you are finished. HOW IT WORKS • Install the ValetFS daemon on your computer and start it. It prints a QR code. • Scan the code with the app. The two are now paired. • Push a secret from your phone. It appears on the computer as an ordinary file that any tool can read — but it exists only in memory. • Close the app, and a grace timer starts. When it expires the daemon unmounts and wipes itself. Nothing is left behind on disk. END-TO-END ENCRYPTED Secrets are encrypted on your phone for one specific daemon, using X25519 key agreement and ChaCha20-Poly1305. The relay that carries them sees only ciphertext. We cannot read your secrets, and neither can anyone operating the infrastructure in between. BUILT FOR AGENTS Provision a session from the app and hand an AI agent a single connection key. The agent installs the daemon and joins — and you keep the authority to revoke it. One tap forgets the session, and a still-running daemon locks itself, unmounts, and wipes its memory. WHY NOT A CLOUD SECRETS MANAGER Federated identity solves this for workloads that run inside a cloud — they already have an identity to exchange for a short-lived token. Your laptop, your home server and the container your agent runs in have none, so they fall back to a file on disk. ValetFS gives that machine the thing it was missing: an authority that can say no, and that lives somewhere the machine cannot reach. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING There is no sign-up and no login. No analytics SDK, no advertising, no behavioural tracking. The app is a client for infrastructure you can inspect — the daemon and the relay are both open source. REQUIRES A COMPUTER ValetFS is a companion to the ValetFS daemon, which runs on macOS or Linux and is a free open-source download. The app on its own has nothing to pair with. Daemon and source: https://github.com/WinM2M/valet-fs