should have an openssh backend
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- ruby
- Domain
- devops, infrastructure
Research direction
Start by inspecting how sshkit currently depends on net-ssh for connecting to remote hosts, then examine the boundary where it could call the "ssh" binary instead. Done means sshkit can use the system OpenSSH client while preserving its existing remote-host behavior and avoiding net-ssh's crypto limitations.
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Description
sshkit currently depends on 'net-ssh' for connecting to remote hosts. net-ssh is reimplementing ssh in pure ruby, and failing as badly as as one would expect on the security front: It still supports cryptography that's obsolete and broken, it does not implement current algorithms (in particular no post-quantum ones), it does not support private keys on hardware tokens, it does not check hostkeys by default, and probably lots more...
Therefore, sshkit should be able to call out to the "ssh" binary and thus leave the crypto to the professionals.
- Dominant language
- Ruby
- Stars
- 1.2k
- Forks
- 257
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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