Project Status

Refer to project scope here

High level tasks completed

• POSIX compliant IO wrapper on Win32 Overlapped IO: this enables Unix based OpenSSH code to work for and on Windows.
• Visual Studio 2015 solution to build OpenSSH for Windows.
• Secure architecture for Windows: OpenSSH server side architecture is altered for Windows adhering to its security principles. This is done with minimal impact to overall source layout.
• Secure ssh-agent: A different version of agent is authored for Windows to fit Windows security model and enable a Single Sign-On experience.
• VT100/ANSI TTY and PTY: Rewritten client side ANSI parser to accurately interpret and render VT100 stream on Windows console. Server side VT100 PTY that will support rich Windows console applications.

Work in progress

• Unicode support in Windows: Windows APIs are typically UTF-16 based while on Unix, its UTF-8. Details here.
• POSIX File API support in Windows: Currently SFTP and SCP have significant Windows differentiated code. This enables effective Unix based code usage on Windows. Tracked here.

Work in pipeline

• Enable PTY on nano server.
• Code cleanup and refactoring: In entire project specific logic has been ifdef'ed and spread out at various places in the project in an attempt to achieve a workable solution on Windows. These need to be cleaned up and refactored as per OpenBSD's coding guidelines in order to get to an acceptable state. Tracked [here] (https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Area-Code+Cleanup%22).
• Syncing Win32 fork with the latest changes from OpenSSH main repo. Tracked [here] (https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/328).
• SAL annotate Win32 specific code. Run static analysis.Tracked [here] (https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/329).
• Fix bugs to be addressed for this milestone.
• Implement pester based basic E2E tests for Windows. Details [here] (https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/330).