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Key Exchange Methods: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1, diffie-hellman-group14-sha1, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 Hostkey Types: ssh-rsa, ssh-dss Ciphers: aes256-cbc (rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se), aes192-cbc, aes128-cbc, 3des-cbc, blowfish-cbc, cast128-cbc, arcfour, none Compression Schemes: zlib, zlib@openssh.com, none MAC hashes: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha1-96, hmac-md5, hmac-md5-96, hmac-ripemd160 (hmac-ripemd160@openssh.com), none Authentication: none, password, public-key, hostbased, keyboard-interactive Channels: shell, exec (incl. SCP wrapper), direct-tcpip, subsystem Global Requests: tcpip-forward Channel Requests: x11, pty, exit-signal, keepalive@openssh.com Subsystems: sftp(version 3), publickey(version 2) SFTP: statvfs@openssh.com, fstatvfs@openssh.com Thread-safe: just don't share handles simultaneously Non-blocking: it can be used both blocking and non-blocking Your sockets: the app hands over the socket, calls select() etc. OpenSSL, Libgcrypt or WinCNG (native since Windows Vista): builds with either.
libssh2 is a library implementing the SSH2 protocol, available under the revised BSD license.
Web site: https://www.libssh2.org/
Mailing list: https://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/libssh2-devel
License: see COPYING
Source code: https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2
Web site source code: https://github.com/libssh2/www
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Key Exchange Methods: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1, diffie-hellman-group14-sha1, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 Hostkey Types: ssh-rsa, ssh-dss Ciphers: aes256-cbc (rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se), aes192-cbc, aes128-cbc, 3des-cbc, blowfish-cbc, cast128-cbc, arcfour, none Compression Schemes: zlib, zlib@openssh.com, none MAC hashes: hmac-sha1, hmac-sha1-96, hmac-md5, hmac-md5-96, hmac-ripemd160 (hmac-ripemd160@openssh.com), none Authentication: none, password, public-key, hostbased, keyboard-interactive Channels: shell, exec (incl. SCP wrapper), direct-tcpip, subsystem Global Requests: tcpip-forward Channel Requests: x11, pty, exit-signal, keepalive@openssh.com Subsystems: sftp(version 3), publickey(version 2) SFTP: statvfs@openssh.com, fstatvfs@openssh.com Thread-safe: just don't share handles simultaneously Non-blocking: it can be used both blocking and non-blocking Your sockets: the app hands over the socket, calls select() etc. OpenSSL, Libgcrypt or WinCNG (native since Windows Vista): builds with either.
We found that rmt_libssh2 demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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