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SyncTERM
Cross-platform BBS (ANSI) Terminal
A cross-platform ANSI-BBS terminal designed to connect to remote BBSs via telnet, rlogin, or SSH. Supports ANSI music and the IBM charset when possible. Will run from a console, under X11 using XLib, or using SDL. -
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whoami.filippo.io
A ssh server that knows who you are. $ ssh whoami.filippo.io
whoami.filippo.io powers a diagnostic service that reports what your client and connection look like from the other side, making it a handy mirror for network and TLS debugging. It surfaces details such as your IP address, protocol versions, cipher suites, SNI, and other attributes that are otherwise tedious to confirm across layers. The tool emphasizes clarity and minimalism, helping engineers quickly verify configuration changes in browsers, proxies, VPNs, or CLI tools. It is especially helpful when validating modern TLS features like ALPN, HTTP versions, and certificate behavior under different client stacks. Because the output is human-friendly, it doubles as an educational resource for understanding how transport and application-layer negotiations actually manifest. Teams use it to troubleshoot misconfigurations and confirm policy enforcement without setting up their own inspection endpoints. -
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Doffen SSH Tunnel
Manage hierarchy of ssh sessions and tunnels
Ssh terminal, file transfer and tunneling tool. The focus is on running tunnels inside tunnels. That one has to jump through several machines. Please see the wiki pages for documentation. https://sourceforge.net/p/doffensshtunnel/wiki/Home/ -
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HPN-SSH is a series of performance patches for OpenSSH. By addressing network limitations and CPU limitations significant throughput performance can be realized. Gains of close to two orders of magnitude are possible on long fat network paths. The official git repo is now available at http://github.com/rapier1/openssh-portable. The Sourceforge repository should not be seen as the canonical repository for HPN-SSH. We will update it as we can but users should look to github to generate patches We also support Ubuntu packages. Add them to your package manager with `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rapier1/hpnssh` Fedora RPMs can be added with, `sudo dnf copr enable rapier1/hpnssh`
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Russh
Rust SSH client & server library
Russh provides a Rust library for implementing SSH clients and servers with a modern, async-friendly design. It exposes building blocks for authentication, channel management, port forwarding, and key handling, allowing you to embed SSH functionality directly into Rust applications. The API is designed to be explicit and composable, making it possible to implement custom behaviors like reverse tunnels, interactive shells, and service multiplexing. Because performance and safety are central, the code leverages Rust’s type system to reduce classes of runtime errors common in network protocol implementations. The project also includes examples and discussion threads that show how other tools integrate it for web-based clients or gateway services. For teams building terminals, proxies, or embedded management planes, it offers a robust foundation without shelling out to external binaries. -
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Tabby Web
An SSH/Telnet/Serial client in your browser
Tabby Web brings a modern terminal experience to the browser by pairing a web UI with a backend gateway that brokers TCP connections over WebSockets. It aims to deliver an experience similar to the desktop Tabby terminal—sessions, profiles, and rich configuration—while being accessible anywhere through a login. The architecture splits concerns: a Django-based control plane manages users, auth, and configuration, while a gateway service handles network transport so browser clients can reach SSH, Telnet, or serial targets. This separation enables multi-user deployments with persistent settings, role-based access, and storage backends for artifacts. It’s useful for organizations that need managed remote access from within a web portal, without installing a full desktop client on every machine. With its focus on admin ergonomics and end-user UX, Tabby Web turns terminal access into a managed, auditable, and scalable web application. -
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Manage node sets, node groups and execute commands on cluster nodes in parallel. Provides an event-based Python library to improve administration of large compute clusters or server farms. Command line tools: clush and nodeset included.
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YADE (SOSFTP)
A Batch and API oriented application for managed file transfer.
YADE (former SOSFTP) is a batch file transfer solution for FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV and other protocols. It provides a configurable command line client, an API and a bridge to the SOS JobScheduler. YADE comes with advanced error handling and logging capabilities. YADE is able to create and maintain a transfer history in a central database. Product Knowledge Base at https://kb.sos-berlin.com Change Management System at https://change.sos-berlin.com -
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SSH System Administration Tool
SSH Java client GUI for Unix, Linux administration and monitoring
Raanan Zion https://au.linkedin.com/pub/raanan-zion/88/7b9/255 ssh Java interface for Unix, Linux and MS Windows system administration and monitoring. Automates firewall rule checks; exporting the results into Excel. Allows you to run multiple Unix commands on multiple servers simultaneously. Captures your network traces (on the port/ports and interface/interfaces of your choice) and at at a click of a button copies them back to your desktop opening. Remotely monitor your servers in a real time dashboard displaying CPU and RAM. Access your servers; this release is integrated with the following 3rd party tools: Remote Desktop (RDP), PuTTY(included) , WinSCP (included) and Wireshark (separate download). Bandwidth and system monitoring. Secure login csv fields encryption MS Windows XP/Vista/7 Linux Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu (Debian) [Raanan Zion] -
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libSSL
C++ SSL Library
C++ library that wraps both raw and SSL functionality into an easy-to-use set of classes. Raw sockets supported: * IPV4 TCP Platforms currently supported: * Windows The following SSL libraries are supported: * OpenSSL 1.0.2d Additional platforms, raw libraries (e.g. IPV6) etc. will be added in due course, the architecture has been designed to accommodate expansion. -
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http-proxy-tunnel
Create nested tunnels through HTTP proxies
Http-proxy-tunnel creates TCP tunnels through http proxies that permit the CONNECT method. It differs from other proxy tunnelling programs in that it can tunnel through multiple proxies, and can use SSL tunnels. These abilities mean that in combination with a web server that can proxy (such as Apache) you can serve normal web pages from ports 80 and 443 and connect to the server (using ssh say) via those ports at the same time. All available documentation can be read online at http://http-proxy-tunnel.sourceforge.net/ -
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Self-Healing Ind. File Transfer (Shift)
Fast reliable local/remote file transfers, sync, tar create/extract
Shift is a lightweight framework for high performance local and remote file transfers that provides resiliency across a wide variety of failure scenarios through various techniques. These include end-to-end integrity via cryptographic hashes, throttling of transfers to prevent resource exhaustion, balancing transfers across resources based on load and availability, and parallelization of transfers across multiple source and destination hosts for increased redundancy and performance. -
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MySecureShell is a sftp-server developing tool which help to make a ftp server like proftpd but very securised with SSH encryption. This software is highly configurable and very easy to install and use. Project has moved to https://github.com/mysecureshell/mysecureshell !
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Compassh
the OpenSSH VPN, without the VPN
Compassh is an helper for the popular OpenSSH remote connection software, focused on providing near-VPN service without the complexity and the setup required by a real VPN. Using a VPN software may require an ad-hoc firewall setup, the generation of a key (pair) and the installation of the VPN software on a host that is not under your control. Compassh try to solve as much of this problems with a smart use of OpenSSH. -
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nps-ssh-askpass does exactly the same job as x11-ssh-askpass. The difference is that nps-ssh-askpass does not require xmkmf, so it is easier to compile on Mac OS X and Cygwin.
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Bash-Accessible SSH FileSystem (BASSHFS)
SSHFS-like functionality via bash
BASSHFS is similar to the existing SSHFS utility except it is does not require FUSE kernel support. Instead, BASSHFS uses the aliasing and function mechanisms of the bash shell to intercept program invocations and remap those that are supported to its own versions. -
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Chronicle is a set of BASH shell scripts that use rsync to back up data to a remote host. Snapshots are created and rotated using hard links to minimize storage requirements.
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Un ensemble de scripts utilises par Framasoft. Ils ont ete realise afin de mieux gerer des serveurs ou pour ajouter des fonctionnalites à nos sites internet.
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HSCP (Hybrid scp) is developing to transmit the large size file at high speed on the long distance and wideband infrastructure. It has achieved the fast transfer by changing the file transfer part of scp into the UDP (using UDT).
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HSFTP (Hybrid sftp) is developing to transmit the large size file at high speed on the long distance and wideband infrastructure. It has achieved the fast transfer by changing the file transfer part of sftp into the UDP (using UDT). cf. HSCP.
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HSSH (Hybrid ssh) is developing to transmit the large size data at high speed on the long distance and wideband infrastructure. It has achieved the fast transfer by changing both ways pipeio transfer of ssh into the UDP (using UDT). cf. HSCP
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IdeaConnect parallelSSH
.NET SSH client allowing to execute commands on multiple servers
IdeaConnect parallelSSH (pSSH) is a Secure Shell connection client created in C# which runs under .NET and/or Mono platforms. Allows to open multiple SSH connections under Windows, OSX and Linux (Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, openSUSE) platforms. The aim of the project is to create a good solution for management of multiple Linux-based servers. Built upon SharpSSH JSch wrapper by Tamir Gal, GPL licensed. For more information visit our site (http://ideaconnect.pl [ IdeaConnect Bartosz Pachołek ]) or track as on Twitter @ideaForTomorrow or #innovateNow -
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Kippo-Graph
Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Kippo SSH honeypot
Kippo-Graph is a full featured script to visualize statistics from a Kippo SSH honeypot. It uses “Libchart” PHP chart drawing library by Jean-Marc Trémeaux, “QGoogleVisualizationAPI” PHP Wrapper for Google’s Visualization API by Thomas Schäfer and geoPlugin geolocation technology (geoplugin.com). Kippo-Graph currently shows 24 charts, including top 10 passwords, top 10 usernames, top 10 username/password combos, success ratio, connections per IP, connections per country, probes per day, probes per week, ssh clients, top 10 overall input, top 10 successful input, top 10 failed input and many more. There are also geolocation data extracted and displayed with Google visualization technology using a Google Map, a Intensity Map, etc. Lastly, input-related data and statistics are also presented giving an overview of the action inside the system and there is live playback ability of captured sessions. -
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Loma Larga
Lomalarga is a VPN-like service based on SSH and Linux.
Lomalarga is a port forwarding (VPN-like) service based on SSH & Linux. Based entirely on open source. The client is written in C# and the administration is based on Linux/lighttpd/PostgreSQL/PHP, with the UI written with Google Web Toolkit. -
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MaheshaBSD server
Easy to use Wordpress-server solution on USB-stick powered by BSD
Unix-based MaheshaBSD provides an easy to use Wordpress-server on USB-stick securely deployed, easily to administrate and very fast. Its capable of work under heavy workloads based on the FreeBSD technology and world-class security.