ssh-cipher

Pure Rust implementation of SSH symmetric encryption including support for the modern [email protected]/[email protected] and [email protected] algorithms as well as legacy support for older ciphers. Built on the pure Rust cryptography implementations maintained by the RustCrypto organization.

0.3.0 11M downloads/mo #2995 most downloaded on crates.io RustCrypto/SSH

What this package is like to depend on

Last release 1 months ago

28 Jun 2026

Ships unpredictably

gaps range from 9 days to 10 months

Most releases are documented

notes for 2 of 3 stable releases

Nothing withdrawn

no release was ever pulled

3 years old

18 releases · first in 2023

9 releases in the last 12 months

see the full history below

Release timeline

18 releases · May 2023 to Jun 2026

2024 2025 2026

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Releases

latest 18

0.3.0 28 Jun 2026

Release notes

ssh-cipher v0.3.0 (#558)
Open source →
Release notes
Added
- Decryptor and Encryptor (#253, #533, #534)
- ChaCha20Poly1305 implementing SSH-flavored construction with aead API (#256, #370)
- zeroize feature (#283)
- core::error::Error support (#303)
- getrandom and rand_core feature passthroughs (#535)
- encoding feature (#560)
Changed
- Upgrade to 2024 edition; MSRV 1.85 (#354)
- Migrate from subtle to ctutils (#507)
- Consolidate aes feature instead of per-block-mode features (#530)
- Upgrade low-level symmetric crypto dependencies (#516)
  - aes v0.9
  - ctr v0.10
  - chacha20 v0.10
  - des v0.9
  - poly1305 v0.9
- Upgrade ssh-encoding to v0.3 (#537)
- Upgrade AEAD dependencies (#557)
  - aead 0.6
  - aes-gcm v0.11
Removed
- std feature (#303)
Open source →
0.3.0-rc.10 25 May 2026 pre-release

Release notes

ssh-cipher v0.3.0-rc.10 (#538)
Open source →
0.3.0-rc.9 11 May 2026 pre-release

Release notes

ssh-cipher v0.3.0-rc.9 (#518)
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0.3.0-rc.8 10 Mar 2026 pre-release

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0.3.0-rc.7 04 Feb 2026 pre-release

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0.3.0-rc.6 25 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.3.0-rc.5 12 Jan 2026 pre-release

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0.3.0-rc.4 25 Nov 2025 pre-release

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0.3.0-rc.3 03 Sep 2025 pre-release

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0.3.0-rc.2 10 Jul 2025 pre-release

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0.3.0-rc.1 02 Jun 2025 pre-release

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0.3.0-rc.0 01 Jun 2025 pre-release

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0.3.0-pre.2 15 Aug 2024 pre-release

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0.3.0-pre.1 13 Aug 2024 pre-release

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0.3.0-pre.0 28 Jul 2024 pre-release

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0.2.0 12 Aug 2023
Release notes
- Initial release
Open source →
0.1.0-pre.0 21 Jun 2023 pre-release

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0.0.0 29 May 2023

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