libssh2 is a client-side C library implementing the SSH2 protocol
Capabilities and Features
- 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, 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
- Subsystems: sftp(version 3), publickey(version 2)
- Thread-safe: just don't share handles simultanouesly
- Non-blocking: it can be used both blocking and non-blocking
- Your sockets: the app hands over the socket, calls select() etc.
- OpenSSL or gcrypt: builds with either
Download
Documentation
Support
Development
