Re: [VFS] Status of JSch and SFTP support

[Elric V]

On 2023-04-30 09:55, Jon wrote:

JSch is aging and appears to be abandoned at this point.
Any insight or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.


I've been using mwiede's continuation of jsch for a few years now, with 
success. Their fork can be found on github and in maven central etc: 
https://github.com/mwiede/jsch


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Re: [VFS] Status of JSch and SFTP support

[Gary Gregory]

I would not mind seeing if we can replace Jsch with Mina. This should be
transparent to call sites (hopefully). Feel free to provide a PR on GitHub
;-)

Gary

On Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 04:15 Jon  wrote:

> JSch is aging and appears to be abandoned at this point. (One particular
> issue is its lack of support for newer key formats and algorithms). Are
> there any plans to replace it with a different implementation? It looks
> like there is an SFTP implementation under the Apache MINA SSHD project, as
> an example of an alternative. It's also possible to replace the standard
> JSch dependency with a fork (such as github.com/mwiede/jsch), but I'd
> rather stick to something "sanctioned" by VFS contributors.
>
> Any insight or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
>