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Win32-OpenSSH

Win32 port of OpenSSH

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

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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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 8:59:20 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

5 sources
judge2020·Aug 26, 2022
For Windows, it seems it's possible[0, see footnote], however there are problems like general incompatibilities [1], and official support status is " We have this in our backlog. At this point it's not prioritized.". 0: https://github.com/tavrez/openssh-sk-winhello 0.footnote: "Windows Hello also supports other types of authenticators like internal TPM device(if they support generating ECDSA or Ed25519 keys, they can be used instead of FIDO/U2F security keys)." 1: https://github.com/tavrez/openssh-sk-winhello/issues 2: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/1804#issu...
In Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS
judge2020·Feb 16, 2022
Krypt pretty much works all the time for me, with the main reason I still use it being that WSL can't use the host OS's ssh-agent for logging in without aliasing ssh to ssh.exe. That and the Windows ssh agent itself can't use native Windows Hello APIs[0] to have an experience similar to secretive on Mac where the keys never leave the device and are protected by the secure processor in the device. 0: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/1804#issu...
In 1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)
Firehawke·Jan 11, 2022
Yubikey is probably the sanest cross-platform solution. Assuming you're using an updated beyond Microsoft's default version, which you'll need to get from https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases to have support for USB keys, of course. Hopefully MS will update their included version at some point soon. From there, it's as simple as telling the .ssh/config file to use the key from your Yubikey and you can use the same config file on any machine you have OpenSSH.
In Tell HN: GitHub no longer supporting unauthenticated `git://`

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