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Pure Rust implementation of components of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol

Is RustCrypto/SSH beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to RustCrypto/SSH to say how often they are merged. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

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Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
10
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
1
Dominant language
Rust
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Last GitHub push
Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 19, 2026
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  • write_openssh_file() doesn't document the file permission it uses to create the file
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 75/100

    RustCrypto/SSH#596 ·

  • ssh-key: Avoid writing to tests/examples/ in unit tests
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    RustCrypto/SSH#595 ·

  • Support for FIDO/U2F signature
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    RustCrypto/SSH#580 · 3 comments ·

  • Question/Feature Request: Is Encryption/Description of text with SSH Key possible?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

    RustCrypto/SSH#527 · 4 comments ·

  • `ssh-key` 0.7.0 release
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    RustCrypto/SSH#475 · 10 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • PQ/T Hybrid Key Exchange
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    RustCrypto/SSH#349 · 2 reactions ·

  • "unknown algorithm" error
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    RustCrypto/SSH#334 · 2 comments ·

  • `decode_as` argument ordering
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    RustCrypto/SSH#313 · 1 comment ·

  • Additional crates
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    RustCrypto/SSH#2 · 14 comments ·

  • Merging ssh-key and sshcerts
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    RustCrypto/SSH#4 · 10 comments ·

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