[Crypto] Toy SSH client in ~2k SLOC of Python, v6

Previous blog posts: 1, 2, 3, 4. 5.

This is bug-fix release. Mostly network bugs fixed.

I started it in ~2022 mostly for learning, but it turned into practical tool, when I need to connect to some old routers, devices with algorithms like ssh-rsa, ssh-dss.

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(the post first published at 20260120.)


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