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kadeessh
kadeessh
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kadeessh / kadeessh

kadeessh

Kadeessh (formerly Caddy-SSH) is a general-purpose, extensible, modular, memory-safe SSH server built in Go

2Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
564GitHub stars
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What it is

Kadeessh (formerly Caddy-SSH) is a general-purpose, extensible, modular, memory-safe SSH server built in Go

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-03-28 14:26:41 UTC to 2025-06-29 23:33:44 UTC.

01232022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I'm not actively working on it daily, as I have shortage of free time and helping hands, but the HTTP Spec Test Suite is my Moby-Dick. I wrote about it here: https://www.caffeinatedwonders.com/2024/12/18/towards-valida..., I also discussed it on the HTTP WG mailing list and presented it at the HTTP WG Workshop last year. Another Moby-Dick of mine is Kadessh, the SSH server plugin of Caddy, formerly known as caddy-ssh. This one is an itch. I wrote about it here https://www.caffeinatedwonders.com/2022/03/28/new-ssh-server..., and the repo is here: https://github.com/kadeessh/kadeessh. Similar to the other one, feedback and helping hands are sorely needed. They are both sort of an obsession and itches of mine, but between dayjob and school, I barely have a chance to have the clear mind to give them the attention they require.
In Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Well, effort for such undertaking has started by yours truly as a Caddy module/plugin. Here's my announcement blog post: https://www.caffeinatedwonders.com/2022/03/28/new-ssh-server.... It's not abandoned. I'm still trying to move the project forward. I've just been busy with life. I've moved the repo to an org and put a new name on it: https://github.com/kadeessh/kadeessh. Contributions and help are more than welcome. I'd love to evolve the project, but I need hands and feedback from users, which I haven't received much of.
In OpenSSH 9.3/9.3p1
The plans are there! I focused on implementing the absolute necessary parts of every layer before taking round-2 for the more in-depth implementation. I actually have both the linked thread and the article saved aside to study when I'm ready to implement certificate-based authentication. Knowing Gitea already has it implemented, I had plans to study their implementation to know what I'm venturing into. If anybody else is interested in picking it up, please feel free to tackle it! I'd love to see that PR. I've created tracking issue: https://github.com/mohammed90/caddy-ssh/issues/10
In Show HN: Caddy-SSH

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