SSH library in C?

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Fri Apr 9 12:21:49 EST 2004


Dan Kaminsky wrote:

> Garg, Jai V (Jai) wrote:
>>     Is there a C API for ssh client?  If yes, where can I get 
>> documentation on it?  If no, I would like to request it.

A lot of software that uses SSH as a transport uses popen() or 
socketpair/fork/exec as its API.

>    This might work for you:  http://0xbadc0de.be/projects/sshlib.html/

Peter Gutmann's cryptlib speaks SSH.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/

>    Also worth investigating is Dropbear.

Dropbear is a SSH2-only server only, though.

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