Apache SSHD is a 100% pure java library to support the SSH protocols on both the client and server side. This library can leverage Apache MINA, a scalable and high performance asynchronous IO library. SSHD does not really aim at being a replacement for the SSH client or SSH server from Unix operating systems, but rather provides support for Java based applications requiring SSH support.
- RFC 4251 - The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Architecture
- RFC 4252 - The Secure Shell (SSH) Authentication Protocol
- RFC 4253 - The Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol
- RFC 4254 - The Secure Shell (SSH) Connection Protocol
- RFC 4256 - Generic Message Exchange Authentication for the Secure Shell Protocol (SSH)
- RFC 4335 - The Secure Shell (SSH) Session Channel Break Extension
- RFC 4344 - The Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Encryption Modes
- RFC 4345 - Improved Arcfour Modes for the Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol
- RFC 4419 - Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange for the Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol
- RFC 4716 - The Secure Shell (SSH) Public Key File Format
- RFC 5208 - Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #8 - version 1.2
- RFC 5480 - Elliptic Curve Cryptography Subject Public Key Information
- RFC 5647 - AES Galois Counter Mode for the Secure Shell Transport Layer Protocol
- RFC 5656 - Elliptic Curve Algorithm Integration in the Secure Shell Transport Layer
- RFC 5915 - Elliptic Curve Private Key Structure
- RFC 6668 - SHA-2 Data Integrity Verification for the Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol
- RFC 8160 - IUTF8 Terminal Mode in Secure Shell (SSH)
- RFC 8268 - More Modular Exponentiation (MODP) Diffie-Hellman (DH) Key Exchange (KEX) Groups for Secure Shell (SSH)
- RFC 8308 - Extension Negotiation in the Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol
- Note: - the code contains hooks for implementing the RFC but beyond allowing convenient support for the required protocol details, it does not implement any default logic that handles the messages or manages the actual extension negotiation (though some experimental code is available).
- RFC 8332 - Use of RSA Keys with SHA-256 and SHA-512 in the Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol
- Note: - the server side supports these signatures by default. The client side requires specific initialization - see section 3.3 and also the above mentioned hooks for RFC 8308.
- Key Exchange (KEX) Method Updates and Recommendations for Secure Shell
- OpenSSH support for U2F/FIDO security keys
- Note: the server side supports these keys by default. The client side requires specific initialization
- OpenSSH public-key certificate authentication system for use by SSH
- SSH proxy jumps
- SFTP version 3-6 + extensions
supported- DRAFT 05 - section 4.4supported2- DRAFT 13 section 5.4versions- DRAFT 09 Section 4.6vendor-id- DRAFT 09 - section 4.4acl-supported- DRAFT 11 - section 5.4newline- DRAFT 09 Section 4.3md5-hash,md5-hash-handle- DRAFT 09 - section 9.1.1check-file-handle,check-file-name- DRAFT 09 - section 9.1.2copy-file,copy-data- DRAFT 00 - sections 6, 7space-available- DRAFT 09 - section 9.3- Several OpenSSH SFTP extensions
- Ciphers: aes128cbc, aes128ctr, aes192cbc, aes192ctr, aes256cbc, aes256ctr, arcfour128, arcfour256, blowfishcbc, tripledescbc, [email protected], [email protected]
- Digests: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512
- Macs: hmacmd5, hmacmd596, hmacsha1, hmacsha196, hmacsha256, hmacsha512, [email protected] , [email protected], [email protected]
- Key exchange: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256, diffie-hellman-group14-sha1, diffie-hellman-group14-sha256 , diffie-hellman-group15-sha512, diffie-hellman-group16-sha512, diffie-hellman-group17-sha512, diffie-hellman-group18-sha512 , ecdh-sha2-nistp256, ecdh-sha2-nistp384, ecdh-sha2-nistp521
- Compressions: none, zlib, [email protected]
- Signatures/Keys: ssh-dss, ssh-rsa, rsa-sha2-256, rsa-sha2-512, nistp256, nistp384, nistp521
, ssh-ed25519 (requires
eddsaoptional module), [email protected], [email protected] , [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] , [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Note: The above list contains all the supported security settings in the code. However, in accordance with the latest recommendations the default client/server setup includes only the security settings that are currently considered safe to use. Users who wish to include the unsafe settings must do so explicitly. The following settings have been deprecated and are no longer included in the default setup:
- RFC 8758 - Deprecating RC4 in Secure Shell (SSH)
- RFC 8429 - Deprecate Triple-DES (3DES) and RC4 in Kerberos
- While it refers to Kerberos, it mentions weaknesses in DES as well.
- OpenSSH release notes - usually a good indicator of de-facto practices
- SHA-1 based key exchanges and signatures
- MD5-based and truncated HMAC algorithms
Caveat:: According to RFC 8332 - section 3.31
Implementation experience has shown that there are servers that apply authentication penalties to clients attempting public key algorithms that the SSH server does not support.
When authenticating with an RSA key against a server that does not implement the "server-sig-algs" extension, clients MAY default to an "ssh-rsa" signature to avoid authentication penalties. When the new rsa-sha2-* algorithms have been sufficiently widely adopted to warrant disabling "ssh-rsa", clients MAY default to one of the new algorithms.
This means that users that encounter this (and related) problems must modify the supported security settings explicitly in order to avoid the issue.
Special notice: ssh-rsa was left in as part of the default setup since there are still a lot of systems / users
using it. However, in future version it will be removed from the default. We therefore strongly encourage users to migrate
to other keys (e.g. ECDSA, ED25519) as soon as possible.
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Java 8+ (as of version 1.3)
The code only requires the core abstract slf4j-api module. The actual implementation of the logging API can be selected from the many existing adaptors.
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sshd-common - contains basic classes used throughout the project as well as code that does not require client or server network support.
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sshd-core - contains the basic SSH client/server code implementing the connection, transport, channels, forwarding, etc..
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sshd-sftp - contains the server side SFTP subsystem and the SFTP client code.
- sshd-spring-sftp - contains a Spring Integration compatible SFTP adapter
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sshd-scp - contains the server side SCP command handler and the SCP client code.
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sshd-ldap - contains server-side password and public key authenticators that use an LDAP server.
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sshd-git - contains replacements for JGit SSH session factory.
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sshd-osgi - contains an artifact that combines sshd-common and sshd-core so it can be deployed in OSGi environments.
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sshd-putty - contains code that can parse PUTTY key files.
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sshd-openpgp - contains code that can parse OpenPGP key files (with some limitations - see relevant section)
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sshd-cli - contains simple templates for command-line client/server - used to provide look-and-feel similar to the Linux ssh/sshd commands.
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sshd-contrib - experimental code that is currently under review and may find its way into one of the other artifacts (or become an entirely new artifact - e.g., sshd-putty evolved this way).