Available SSH Clients

The latest version of this document can always be found at http://axle.doit.wisc.edu/~tanner/ssh/

All clients support SSH v1.5, SSH v2.0 where noted

Official SSH Home Page:
http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh/
[Various SSH1/SSH2 UNIX servers and clients; Freeware/Commercial]

VanDyke Technologies' SecureCRT:
http://www.vandyke.com/products/SecureCRT/
[Windows 95/98/NT, Windows 3.x; Commercial]
[SecureCRT 3.0 supports SSH2]

Cedomir Igaly's SSH client:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/1692/ssh-index.html
[Windows 95/98/NT and Windows 3.x; Freeware]

Sassy Software's Better Telnet:
http://www.cstone.net/~rbraun/mac/telnet/
[Macintosh; Freeware (GPL)]

Robert O'Callahan's TTSSH:
http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html
[Windows 95/98/NT, Windows 3.x; Freeware]
[Requires TeraTerm Pro (Freeware) available from
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html]

Data Fellows' F-Secure SSH:
http://www.datafellows.com/f-secure/
[Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98/NT, MacOS; Commercial]

Timothy Chen's FiSSH:
http://www.massconfusion.com/ssh/
[Windows 95/98/NT; Freeware (not yet released)]

Win32 port of ssh-1.2.26, ssh-1.2.27, ssh-2.0.13 by Sergey Okhapkin:
http://www.lexa.ru/sos/
[Windows 95/98/NT, Also: sshd for NT; Freeware]

[Alternate URL: http://miracle.geol.msu.ru/sos/]

[Information on configuring SSHD for Win32 is available from

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/archives/1999-03/0060.html
http://v.iki.fi/nt-ssh.html
http://www.lexa.ru/sos/ssh-without-cygwin.html]

Therapy's ssh32 port:
http://guardian.htu.tuwien.ac.at/therapy/ssh/
[Windows 95/98/NT; Freeware]

Tadayoshi Kohno's libSSH
http://ugrad-www.cs.colorado.edu/~kohno/projects/ssh.html
[Windows 95/98/NT; NOTE: ssh library, not client; Freeware]

Set's Windows ssh port:
http://www.newmonics.com/~set/
[Windows; Freeware]

Cdric Gourio's Java-SSH:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fapp2/software/java-ssh/
[Java; Freeware]

The ISAAC Group's Top Gun ssh
http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/
[PalmPilot Professional, Palm III; Freeware]

mov Software's sshCE
http://www.movsoftware.com/sshce.htm
[Windows CE; Shareware]

Mats Andersson's MindTerm
http://www.mindbright.se/mindterm/
[Java; Freeware (GPL)]

Simon Tatham's PuTTY
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty.html
[Windows 95/98/NT; Freeware]

Win32 port of ssh-1.2.22 by Raju Mathur:
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Mathur_Raju/
[Windows 95/98/NT (includes sshd); Freeware]

NiftyTelnet SSH by Jonas WalldΘn
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware.html
[Macintosh; Freeware]
[Newer versions include scp]

EmTec's ZOC
http://www.emtec.com/zoc/
[Windows 95/98/NT, OS/2; Shareware]

Gordon Chaffee's port of ssh 1.2.14
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/winntutil.html
[Windows 95/98/NT, includes scp; Freeware]

AT&T Labs' U/WIN
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
[Windows 95/98/NT; Free for educational, research, and evaluation purposes]

"The U/WIN package provides a mechanism for building and running UNIX applications on Windows NT, Windows 98, and Windows 95 with few, if any, changes necessary." U/WIN allows the complete ssh package to be natively compiled and executed in the Win32 environment using the EGCS compiler for U/WIN. EGCS for U/WIN is available from http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/egcs-uwin.html

Mats Andersson's MindTunnel
http://www.mindbright.se/mindtunnel.html
[Java sshd (port-forwarding only); Freeware]

Per-Erik Martin's ftpsshd
http://www.docs.uu.se/~pem/hacks/
[UNIX program for setting up a secure FTP channel using ssh; Freeware]

Davis L. Jones' sshd for VMS
http://www.er6.eng.ohio-state.edu/~jonesd/ssh/
[OpenVMS 6.2 or higher (sshd); Freeware]

[Alternate URL: http://kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu/~jonesd/ssh/]

Christer Weinigel and Richard Levitte's FISH
http://www.free.lp.se/fish/
[VMS (ssh client); Freeware]

Niels M÷ller's lsh
ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/security/lsh/
[lsh is a free implementation of the ssh protocol written in C; Freeware (GPL)]

Martin Hamilton's psst...
http://www.net.lut.ac.uk/psst/
[psst... is a page that tracks the development of free implementations (in the BSD or GNU sense) of the ssh protocol; Freeware (GPL)]

Thomas K÷nig's ssh FAQ
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ig25/ssh-faq/
[Original ssh FAQ. No longer maintained by author.]

Stanford University's SRP
http://srp.stanford.edu/
[SRP stands for Secure Remote Password protocol, and is mechanism for performing secure password-based authentication and key exchange over any type of network. SRP is a free alternative to SSH.]

BeWare's port of ssh 1.2.26
http://www.be.com/beware/Network/ssh.html
[BeOS (R4, Intel and PPC); Freeware]

Robert Muchsel's ssh for OS/2 (OS/2 port of ssh 1.2.13)
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/telnet/client/sshos203.zip
[OS/2 (includes sshd and scp); Freeware]

Francis Chang's port of ssh 1.2.26 for Cygwin32
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~fhchang/
[Windows NT (includes sshd and scp); Freeware]
[Backup URL: http://www.0wned.org/~axx/]

Apache-SSL
http://www.apache-ssl.org/
[UNIX; Freeware]
[Apache-SSL, when used with mod_put, can be used to implement
a secure file transfer (upload and download) system to replace FTP.
Alternative to SSH]

Wietse Venema's Logdaemon
ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/index.html
[UNIX; Freeware]
[Secure rlogind, rshd, rexecd and ftpd supporting S/Key one-time passwords,
per-user/host/terminal access control and fascist logging. Alternative to SSH]

Steve Acheson's [updated] ssh FAQ
http://www.employees.org/~satch/ssh/faq/
[Updated version of the original ssh FAQ.]

Steffen Leich's SecPanel
http://www2.wiwi.uni-marburg.de/~leich/soft/secpanel/
[Tcl/Tk GUI for managing ssh connections; UNIX; Freeware (GPL) ]

Per Cederqvist's fsh
http://www.lysator.liu.se/fsh/
[fsh is a drop-in rsh-compatible replacement for ssh that automatically resuses ssh tunnels; UNIX; Freeware]

Damien Miller's Slush
http://violet.ibs.com.au/slush/
[simple and secure remote shell application using SSL/TLS for communication security and X509 for authentication; UNIX; Freeware]

Matthias L. Jugel and Marcus Meibner's Java Telnet Application/Applet
http://www.mud.de/se/jta/
[The Java Telnet Applet is a fully featured telnet implementation that includes VT and ANSI terminal emulation. SSH1 plugin available; Java; Freeware (GPL)]

Brian Smith's OS/2 port of ssh-2.0.10
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bridge/1318/os2-unix/
[ssh 2.0.10 shell package along with daemons for OS/2; OS/2; Freeware]

Cybernetica's Secure Sockets Agent (SSA)
http://www.cyber.ee/ssa/
[SSA provides almost any client/server application with strong cryptographic security using SSL; Win32/UNIX; Free for non-commercial or academic use]

Last updated 10.18.1999

Compiled by tanner@doit.wisc.edu