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Install mosh with Homebrew
Remote terminal application. Version 1.4.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-20.
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Package summary
Remote terminal application
Project links
Commands and aliases
- mosh
- mosh-client
- mosh-server
history
Project history and usage
Mosh, the mobile shell, originated at MIT CSAIL as research by Keith Winstein and Hari Balakrishnan and was presented at USENIX ATC 2012. The paper framed it as a remote terminal application for intermittent connectivity, roaming between networks, and speculative local echo over high-latency paths. Its core technical contribution was the State Synchronization Protocol, a UDP-based protocol for synchronizing client and server terminal state even when the client's IP address changes.
Project history
The 2012 evaluation reported real-world keystroke traces from six users and found that Mosh could immediately display the effects of 70 percent of keystrokes; over a commercial EV-DO network, median keystroke response latency was under 5 ms compared with 503 ms for SSH. The USENIX page also records more than 15,000 downloads in the first week after release, making Mosh one of the better-known examples of systems research packaged as a practical Unix tool.
How it is used
In everyday use, mosh looks like ssh at the command line but uses SSH only to authenticate and start mosh-server on the remote host. After the bootstrap, the terminal session moves to UDP, usually on a high port in the 60000-61000 range. It is packaged broadly across Unix-like systems because its main audience is shell users who work from laptops, unstable Wi-Fi, cellular links, or roaming networks and want terminal sessions to survive connectivity changes.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: yellow
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. generalized runtime or code generation signal.
Risk classifier
yellow risk · medium confidence · runtime
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- generalized runtime or code generation signal
Signals
- text:client,server
- text:shell
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mosh | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mosh-client | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mosh-server | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.4.0
manager updated2026-06-20
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:mosh |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.4.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://mosh.org |
| Repository | https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh |
| Last updated | 2026-06-20T05:07:43Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation