Merge pull request #479 from ddemaio/master

zig hw project

Author: ddemaio

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+author: Douglas DeMaio 
+date: 2025-11-17 16:00:00+01:00
+layout: post
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+license: CC-BY-SA-3.0
+title: Hack Week Project Aims to Implement SSH in Zig
+categories:
+- Announcements
+- openSUSE
+- Community
+- Hack Week
+tags:
+- openSUSE
+- Contribution
+- Community
+- Developers
+- Project
+- Linux 
+- Hack Week
+- Zig
+- SSH
+
+---
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+A [Hack Week 25](https://hackweek.opensuse.org/) project seeks to finish a native SSH implementation written in the [Zig programming language](https://ziglang.org/) that gives developers a lightweight, flexible alternative for experimenting with the secure-shell protocol. 
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+The effort builds on an incomplete implementation that already covers primitives, keys, certificates and much of the agent protocol.
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+The [project’s](https://hackweek.opensuse.org/25/projects/finish-implementing-ssh-in-zig) work so far lives at a SourceHut repository and the immediate goal is to produce a working SSH stack in Zig that is easy to extend for research and experimentation. 
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+Contributors can help finish the protocol flows and broaden cryptographic support so the code can be used for tasks such as testing post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms.
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+Project goals include:
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+* Have a working implementation of the ssh protocol in Zig.
+* Be flexible, as to allow for hacking of the protocol (i.e. testing PQC algorithms).
+* Be agnostic of cryptography libraries (i.e. libcrypto, leancrypto).
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+
+Resource links by the project maintainers include several Internet [Engineering Task Force](https://www.ietf.org/) Request for Comments (RFC) that define SSH and related extensions, plus Zig’s own documentation to guide implementers. 
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+Interested developers can join the Hack Week project or follow the progress.
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+Hack Week, which began in 2007, has become a cornerstone of the project’s open-source culture. Hack Week has produced tools that are now integral to the openSUSE ecosystem, such as [openQA](https://open.qa/), [Weblate](https://weblate.org/) and [Aeon Desktop](https://aeondesktop.github.io/). Hack Week has also seeded projects that later grew into widely used products; the origins of [ownCloud](https://owncloud.com/) and its fork [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/) derive from a Hack Week project started more than a decade ago.
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+For more information, visit [hackweek.opensuse.org](https://hackweek.opensuse.org/).
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