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Win32-OpenSSH

Win32 port of OpenSSH

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Win32 port of OpenSSH

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

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, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave direct repository linkDebated

The discussion centers on the trade-offs between using macOS Secure Enclave for SSH keys versus traditional methods, with users praising the hardware-bound security but criticizing the lack of portability and backup capabilities. Strong disagreements arise regarding whether the biometric requirement is a feature or a bug for automation, and if the perceived security benefits outweigh the usability friction compared to passphrase-protected keys.

139 readable replies · Supporting reply 1 · Supporting reply 2 · Supporting reply 3 · Supporting reply 4

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year52 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-10-19 20:50:50 UTC to 2025-03-09 14:23:41 UTC.

051015202015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 2 submissions, 11 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 3 submissions, 15 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13211
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18315
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
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 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 12, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
As of Nov 1st 2016, active development on "Windows for OpenSSH" is being done in https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable. This repo (https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH) is being maintained to keep track of releases and issues and because it contains the wiki which has instructions for building. Release History Date Version Release with source 2026-10-20 10.4.0.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/tree/v10.4.0.0 2025-10-27 10.0.0.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v10.0.0.0 2025-04-18 9.8.3.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v9.8.3.0 2025-04-08 9.8.2.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v9.8.2.0 2024-10-10 9.8.1.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v9.8.1.0 2024-10-08 9.8.0.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v9.8.0.0 2023-12-18 9.5.0.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v9.5.0.0 2023-10-10 9.4.0.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v9.4.0.0 2023-04-17 9.2.2.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v9.2.2.0 2023-02-21 9.2.0.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v9.2.0.0 2022-12-13 9.1.0.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v9.1.0.0 2022-03-22 8.9.1.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/V8.9.1.0 2022-03-17 8.9.0.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v8.9.0.0 2021-05-26 8.6.0.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v8.6.0.0 2019-12-17 8.1.0.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v8.1.0.0 2019-06-23 8.0.0.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v8.0.0.0 2019-01-11 7.9.0.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v7.9.0.0 2018-07-26 7.7.2.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/releases/tag/v7.7.2.0 Code of Conduct Please see our Code of Conduct before participating in this project. Security Policy For any security issues, please see our Security Policy.
Read the full README on GitHub

What Hacker News says

6 sources
e12e·Oct 20, 2015
The more things change..., from: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/Deploy-Win3... "If you need key-based authentication: Install key-auth package run setup-ssh-lsa.cmd reboot" Reboot? And this gem: "SSH daemon needs to run as System to support key-based authentication". Which means, either use weak authentication, or run the daemon as system. I don't even understand why, it's not like the public keys are particularly sensitive (certainly much less sensitive than being able to check passwords for validity)?
In OpenSSH for Windows update
asveikau·Oct 20, 2015
I too was very skeptical. Something about posts from "The Powershell Team" about porting sshd makes me deeply cynical that they would get the integration right from a layering perspective, i.e. as if they would make it support powershell and nothing else. Fortunately this example shows it going straight into cmd and then they invoke powershell as a next step: C:\Master>ssh.exe -l user@127.0.0.1 user@127.0.0.1's password: ********** Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10566] (c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. user@DEV-10566-829 C:\Users\user>powershell -File - - https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/ssh.exe-exa... That gives me some hope that it's being done right.
In OpenSSH for Windows update

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