Question

I’m planning on writing a simple SSH client in C/C++ for a project in my intro networking class. I am having trouble, however, in finding good documentation on how to do this. I don’t want extensive protocol specification, just a simple guide. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I would take a look at the libssl and libcrypto libraries that are part of the OpenSSL project. On debian-based systems you can get the development libraries using:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

I would take a look at the files under /usr/share/doc/libssl-dev/demos

EDIT: Also, you can read the documentation here or after installing, run man ssl