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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Win32-OpenSSH
Mobile & Desktop2015–2025
PowerShell / Win32-OpenSSH
Win32-OpenSSH
Win32 port of OpenSSH
33Distinct people
52Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
8.4KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Win32 port of OpenSSH
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
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- powershell/openssh-portable · linked in 3 of the same discussions
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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, 7:02:50 PM UTC.
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.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 2 | 11 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 18 | 3 | 15 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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 GitHubWhat Hacker News says
2 sources> I don't know how to write a shell script on a host computer that launches Windows 10 and runs commands with an MSYS2 Mingw64 shell.
Launching a VM via shell script is trivial. And you can install OpenSSH on Windows 10: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
In How to fuck up software releasesIf you can figure out how to reproduce the issue, I'm sure the team would accept a bug report at https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
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