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  "slug": "conduit",
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  "name": "Conduit",
  "use_label": "Phone terminal for reaching servers",
  "one_liner": "SSH, Mosh, SFTP terminal for Android and iOS with no account; hardware keys over USB/NFC",
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    "why": "Hosts, keys and trusted fingerprints stay on the device — no account, no cloud sync, no subscription. Mosh runs on dart_mosh, a clean-room Dart implementation, so a session survives Wi-Fi drops and cellular handoffs; ed25519-sk and ecdsa-sk FIDO keys work over USB and NFC on Android and NFC on iOS (tested with YubiKey). On Android arm64 it can also open a local Arch Linux shell, with pacman, through proot — no server involved.",
    "take": "A phone terminal with hardware-key auth and Mosh, no account or subscription attached, with the source under Apache-2.0.",
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      "Per-host tmux auto-attach plus run-on-connect snippets make a phone-side server check routine; hardware-key auth with agent forwarding covers a jump-host workflow."
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        "role": "Server operators",
        "situation": "SSH/Mosh on the move with tmux auto-attach"
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      {
        "role": "Security-key users",
        "situation": "SSH auth from a phone with YubiKey or other FIDO keys"
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        "role": "Android users",
        "situation": "a local Arch Linux shell with pacman, no server needed"
      }
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        "text": "1. App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780054869"
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        "text": "2. Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gwitko.conduit"
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        "text": "3. F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.gwitko.conduit/ (or track GitHub releases with Obtainium)"
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        "text": "4. Add a machine in the app, import a private key from a file or generate an ed25519 key on device, then connect"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "(No shell install commands in the README — store-distributed)"
      }
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      "Conduit's own code is Apache-2.0. Android builds with the local shell redistribute Termux-packaged third-party binaries (proot and others) under their own licences, GPL/LGPL included, listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. The local Arch Linux shell is Android arm64 only, not iOS. The Google Play build omits the /mnt/android shared-storage mount (all-files permission). iOS hardware keys are NFC only. The app is free per the homepage. Last push 2026-07-24."
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    "flutter"
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    "scope_text": "Commercial use, redistribution OK. Keep notices; mark changes.",
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      "https://tesign.com/img/conduit-2d3f29ee66.png",
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    "alt": "Conduit on a phone — an SSH terminal running nvim, with the Esc, Ctrl, Alt, Tab and arrow key row above the keyboard",
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    "This file was produced by the same build, from the same data, as the tesign.com item page. The text is editorial; the numbers are stored observations.",
    "null in the JSON means not observed — never zero. The Markdown writes [unconfirmed] for it.",
    "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours.",
    "Reconstructed from archive data, not a live discovery.",
    "A summary, not legal advice."
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