OxiSH, a modern, memory-safe SSH server
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HN · launched Aug 13, 2026 · 28 upvotes (top 20%) · 0 views
Niche: remote access and protocol clients · 88 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Implementing a secure, memory-safe SSH protocol server from scratch in Rust requires deep cryptographic engineering, protocol specification mastery, and vulnerability hardening.
What it would actually take: Demands a complete implementation of RFC 4251-4254 SSH protocol state machines, packet binary framing, and sans-I/O asynchronous networking using Tokio. It requires integrating cryptographic libraries (aws-lc-rs/graviola), supporting post-quantum KEX (ML-KEM), handling user authentication methods, and robust PTY/child-process isolation without introducing security flaws.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenSSH, Dropbear
Concerns raised: OpenSSH bloated and vulnerable, Windows support implementation challenges
Feature requests: SPIFFE/SPIRE-style authentication for CI/CD workloads
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2874 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #546 of 2875 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 286 days after the earliest competitor.
- platty · github · 2026-10-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.79
- Reminal · hn · 2026-07-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- shellwing · github · 2026-10-18 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- RawLink · github · 2026-10-19 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Chuchu, an Android SSH client built on libghostty · hn · 2026-05-09 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Linux server management over SSH · hn · 2026-08-31 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Hatoba · github · 2026-10-07 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- A collaborative SSH copilot for on-calls/DevOps/MLOps · hn · 2026-04-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.68
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