On 7/22/22 00:00, Darren Tucker wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 at 18:04, Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] >> That reminds me: is there any chance that OpenSSH’s SSH client >> code could be made into a library that other code could use as well? >> Having to spawn a child process is a bit annoying, and I would like >> to be able to use all of ssh(1)’s features. > > There's a libssh.a built as part of the build process but making it > externally consumable with a stable API/ABI is not a goal. There are > other projects which do have that goal (eg libssh and libssh2, both of > which seem to be actively maintained). That is a valid decision. libssh2 has a somewhat underwhelming security track-record, but libssh seems to be quite good. I do wish there was a library for ssh-keygen -Y signing and verification. Right now Git has to spawn a subprocess and parse its output, which is less than great. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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