sshnet/SSH.NET

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

SSH.NET is a Secure Shell (SSH-2) client library for .NET, optimized for parallelism. It provides SSH command execution, SFTP and SCP file transfer, port forwarding, and interactive shell support with multiple authentication methods.

Use cases

• run remote commands over ssh from c#
• upload and download files via sftp in .net
• scp file transfer from a dotnet application
• set up ssh port forwarding in c#
• connect to ssh through a socks or http proxy
• automate remote server tasks from .net

When to choose

• you need SSH, SFTP, or SCP functionality in a .NET application
• you need async/sync SSH operations with good parallelism
• you need proxy support or multi-factor authentication for SSH connections

When to avoid

• you need an SSH server implementation rather than a client
• you are not working in the .NET ecosystem
• you need a command-line ssh tool rather than a programmable library

Facets

library · maturity stable

ssh networking cryptography file-upload http-client networking security developer-tools files dotnet cross-platform sftp scp port-forwarding ssh-client secure-shell

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