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Project Summary

This project is for programmers needing a working SSH implementation by the mean of a library. The complete control of the client is made by the programmer. With libssh, you can remotely execute programs, transfer files, use a secure and transparent tunnel for your remote programs. With its Secure FTP implementation, you can play with remote files easily, without third-party programs others than libcrypto (from openssl).

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client library networking portable protocol secureshell security server sftp shell ssh ssh2 tunnel

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Andreas Schneider and Aris Adamantiadis

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C 		95%
8 Other 		5%

30 Day Summary

Jul 13 2026 — Aug 12 2026

12 Month Summary

Aug 12 2025 — Aug 12 2026
  • 430 Commits
    Up + 129 (42%) from previous 12 months
  • 41 Contributors
    Up + 8 (24%) from previous 12 months

Most Recent Contributors

Jakub Jelen Martin Pitt
Rui Li Shreyas Mahajan
Pavol Žáčik Sudharshan Hegde

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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for libssh )

Repository URL: https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git

Version:

2026-07-28
Last Analyzed
128,364
Lines of Code Analyze
0.02
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

234
Total defects
2
Outstanding
221
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID CWE-Name Number of Defects
190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound 1