Microsoft Publishes OpenSSH For Windows Code (msdn.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @07:58AM from the go-break-it-before-somebody-else-does dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has published early source code for its OpenSSH-for-Windows port for developers to pick apart and improve. In a blog post on Monday, Steve Lee – the PowerShell team's principal software engineer manager – said Redmond has finished early work on a Windows port of OpenSSH 7.1, built in a joint-effort with NoMachine. Their rough roadmap from here: 1) Leverage Windows crypto APIs instead of OpenSSL/LibreSSL and run as Windows Service. 2) Address POSIX compatibility concerns. 3) Stabilize the code and address reported issues. 4) Production quality release.

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Re:"to pick apart and improve" by vux984 · 2015-10-20 08:43 · Score: 4, Informative

How would this improve it?
Maybe ... key management; using the windows platform key stores. Integration with active directory etc.
Re:Will it tunnel applications? by Minwee · 2015-10-20 08:55 · Score: 5, Informative

If I can expect a windows machine to have an ssh daemon capable of tunneling the RDP port to my machine locally, I would be gaining a lot. Such as no longer exposing RDP directly to the client via a VPN.
ssh -L 3389:127.0.0.1:3389 myusername@somewindowsserver
Run that, and then try to connect to remote desktop on your local machine. It works with any proper SSH server, including Cygwin. Do you have any other requests?