tinyssh vs ssh-tarpit

tinyssh

TinySSH is small server (less than 100000 words of code) (by janmojzis)

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SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner (by Snawoot)

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tinyssh		ssh-tarpit
	Project
8	Mentions	1
1,388	Stars	33
-	Growth	-
5.0	Activity	0.0
11 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
C	Language	Python
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal	License	The Unlicense

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tinyssh

Posts with mentions or reviews of tinyssh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-24.

Ldd /usr/sbin/sshd – Alpine vs. Ubuntu for exploitability of CVE-2024-3094
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2024

While on topic of sshd having minimal dependencies, shout-out to Jan Mojžíš and his minimalist implementation:
https://github.com/janmojzis/tinyssh/
Tinyssh
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2024
Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2022

> [after] hardening steps [...] most of the bots can't even negotiate a connection
Yep, same here, except I'm using [tinyssh], which organically does not support anything other than ed25519/curve25519, sha256, and chacha-poly.
[tinyssh] https://tinyssh.org/
OpenSSH 8.9
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2022

djb suggested that for openssh instead of the tinydns kex, so tinydns switched also:
https://github.com/janmojzis/tinyssh/issues/50
tinyssh
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 23 Dec 2021

1 project | /r/hackernews | 23 Dec 2021

4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Dec 2021
FreeBSD SSH Hardening
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Sep 2021

ssh-tarpit

Posts with mentions or reviews of ssh-tarpit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-29.

Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tinyssh and ssh-tarpit you can also consider the following projects:

dropbear - Dropbear SSH

sshlog - Patch to log OpenSSH Passwords

ssh-audit - SSH server & client security auditing (banner, key exchange, encryption, mac, compression, compatibility, security, etc)

laravel-echo-server - Socket.io server for Laravel Echo

server-side-tls - Server side TLS Tools

lobbyboy - A lobby boy will create a VPS server when you need one, and destroy it after using it.

Samba - https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba is the Official GitLab mirror of https://git.samba.org/samba.git -- Merge requests should be made on GitLab (not on GitHub)

masscan - TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes.

testssl.sh - Testing TLS/SSL encryption anywhere on any port

crowdsec - CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.

yubikey-agent - yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys.

endlessh - SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner