The ssh library was designed to be used by programmers needing a working SSH implementation by the mean of a library. The complete control of the client is made by the programmer. With libssh, you can remotely execute programs, transfer files, use a secure and transparent tunnel for your remote programs. With its Secure FTP implementation, you can play with remote files easily, without third-party programs others than libcrypto (from openssl).

Features

* Full C library functions for manipulating a client-side SSH connection
* SSH2 and SSH1 protocol compliant
* Fully configurable sessions
* Server support
* SSH agent authentication support
* Support for AES-128, AES-192, AES-256, Blowfish, 3DES in CBC mode
* Use multiple SSH connections in a same process, at same time
* Use multiple channels in the same connection
* Thread safety when using different sessions at same time
* POSIX-like SFTP (Secure File Transfer) implementation with openssh extension support
* SCP implementation
* RSA and DSS server public key supported
* Compression support (with zlib)
* Public key (RSA and DSS), password and keyboard-interactive authentication
* Full poll() support and poll-emulation for win32.
* A complete doxygen documentation about its API
* Runs and tested under x86_64, x86, ARM, Sparc32, PPC under Linux, BSD, MacOSX, Solaris and Windows
* Developers listening to you
* It’s free (LGPL)!