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Win32-OpenSSH

Win32 port of OpenSSH

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What it is

Win32 port of OpenSSH

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.
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What Hacker News says

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joeyaiello·Dec 12, 2017
Hey there, everyone! I'm the PM for this project, and it looks like I'm a little late to the party, but I wanted to drop in some notes to add to the discussion: * we also shipped OpenSSH's sshd server, but it's a little tricky to configure right now. Expect a blog post this week. * This is not production-ready in the current version of Windows 10 (hence the "(Beta)" in the label), but we hope to be soon. * All of this is being done in open-source out of a fork at https://github.com/powershell/Win32-OpenSSH (code work is technically checked into https://github.com/powershell/openssh-portable/ first, but those will be consolidated at some point). Check the Wiki there for a ton of info. * We've been working closely with the official OpenSSH Portable maintainers to get upstream at some point in the future. They've been awesome to work with so
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far, and we're really looking forward to moving Windows onto the definitive SSH implementation of the world. This is been a super fun project to work on over the last couple years, and I'm glad that there's such a groundswell of excitement around it. Like I said, I hope to be publishing a lot more documentation/material on our plans as we get to a production-ready state. I've also been super swamped with the release of PowerShell Core 6.0 [1] for Windows/macOS/Linux coming early next year, hence the lack of a good release announcement on these beta bits...Thanks to Patrick Kennedy for finding it and letting everyone know! :) ) [1]: https://github.com/powershell/powershell
In Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
kodablah·Oct 23, 2017
For reference, the work is done at https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable even though the wiki, issues, etc happen there. I will say, from my limited experience w/ MS's fork, they take a bit of a hacky approach. For instance, I just wanted standalone sshd, but they really want you to run it as a service and install/uninstall with PowerShell scripts [0]. In general though, the open SSH fork seems to support pluggable shells and has decent pty support (it fires up a separate shellhost.exe process per client) 0 - https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/909#issue...
In Show HN: Pyrexecd – Standalone SSH Server for Windows
shakna·Sep 15, 2017
Yes, with a lot of issues. They are open issues and being actively worked on, but it isn't exactly stable enough to use everyday, at least for me. --- Almost all the issues are intermittent, and you might not be affected, but my luck has been bad: * Hangs till return, sometimes. [0] * v-flag can hang. [1] * Alt sends \0. [2] * Authentication fails. [3] * Nmap fills the hard drive when sshd is running. Sometimes. [4] * Git compatibility isn't quite there. [5] --- [0] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/874 [1] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/879 [2] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/865 [3] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/855 [4] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/787 [5] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/752
In MTPuTTY – Multi-Tabbed PuTTY
joeyaiello·Aug 8, 2017
We're doing a port of OpenSSH to Win32 right now that includes the SFTP server and client that ships as part of OpenSSH: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases Key configuration is a little tricky right now, but we've got some helper scripts (eventually to be released as a module on the PowerShell Gallery) that it a little easier: [1] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/Security-pr... [2] https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/OpenSSH-uti...
In Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Server

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