wolfSSH is a small, fast, portable SSH implementation, including support for SCP and SFTP.
wolfSSH is dependent on wolfCrypt, found as a part of wolfSSL. The following is the simplest configuration of wolfSSL to enable wolfSSH.
It comes packaged with a few example tools for testing purposes and to demonstrate interoperability with other SSH implementations.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssh
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Developer: wolfSSL
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
wolfSSH is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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