WolfSSH explained

wolfSSH
Developer:John Safranek
Released:[1]
Operating System:Multi-platform
Programming Language:C language
Genre:Security library
License:GPL-3.0-or-later or proprietary license

wolfSSH is a small, portable, embedded SSH library targeted for use by embedded systems developers. It is an open-source implementation of SSH written in the C language. It includes SSH client libraries and an SSH server implementation. It allows for password and public key authentication.

Platforms

wolfSSH is currently available for Win32/64, Linux, macOS, Solaris, Threadx, VxWorks, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, embedded Linux, WinCE, Haiku, OpenWrt, iPhone (iOS), Android, Wii and GameCube through DevKitPro support, QNX, MontaVista, TRON variants (TRON/ITRON/μITRON), NonStop OS, OpenCL, Micrium's MicroC/OS-II, FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS, Freescale MQX, Nucleus, TinyOS, TI-RTOS, HP-UX, uTasker, embOS, PIC32, PikeOS, and Green Hills INTEGRITY.

Protocols

See main article: Secure Shell. The wolfSSH SSH library implements the SSHv2 protocol for both client and server. It also includes support for the Secure copy and SSH File Transfer protocols.

Algorithms

wolfSSH uses the cryptographic services provided by wolfCrypt.[2] wolfCrypt Provides RSA, ECC, Diffie–Hellman, AES (CBC, GCM), Random Number Generation, Large Integer support, and base 16/64 encoding/decoding.

Key exchange

Public key

Integrity

Encryption

Licensing

wolfSSH is open source and dual licensed under both the GNU GPL-3.0-or-later[3] and commercial licensing.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: wolfSSH ChangeLog .
  2. https://www.wolfssl.com/wolfSSL/Docs-wolfssl-manual-10-wolfcrypt-usage-reference.html wolfCrypt Usage Reference
  3. Web site: Licensing Information. https://web.archive.org/web/20210818170851/https://www.wolfssl.com/license/. 2021-08-18. live.