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SSH.NET is a Secure Shell (SSH-2) library for .NET, optimized for parallelism.

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## Introduction

This project was inspired by **Sharp.SSH** library which was ported from java and it seems like was not supported
for quite some time. This library is a complete rewrite, without any third party dependencies, using parallelism
to achieve the best performance possible.

## Supporting SSH.NET

Do you or your company rely on **SSH.NET** in your projects? If you want to encourage us to keep on going and show us that you appreciate our work, please consider becoming a [sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/sshnet) through GitHub Sponsors.
