Unix Alternatives

• OSSH is an SSH1-only implementation. BSD Licence.

  Björn Grönvall was the original person to remind our community that very old versions of the real ssh had a free licence. This is his own implementation, based on the old Tatu code. OpenSSH was based on an early version of OSSH, but OpenSSH added SSH2 and extended the SSH1 protocol support.

• LSH/psst is an SSH2-only implementation, by Niels Möller in Sweden, GPL Licence.

  "ssh uses cryptographic techniques to enhance the security of everyday distributed computing tasks such as file transfers, remote logins and remote command execution. It's intended as a (more) secure alternative to the likes of telnet, ftp, rsh, rlogin and rexec - and one which requires much less effort to set up than Kerberos or IPSEC currently do."

• FreSSH is an SSH implementation, originally written by Eric Haszlakiewicz and Thor Lancelot Simon, and currently developed by Jason R. Thorpe. The licence is BSD like, however it should be read carefully as it contains software developed by other parties and under a different licence.

• Dropbear is a small SSH2 server-only implementation written by Matt Johnston. It is available under a MIT-style license.