DropBear Reviews

DropBear Description

Dropbear is an SSH client and server that is small. It can be used on many Unix platforms. Dropbear is an open-source software distributed under an MIT license. Dropbear is especially useful for embedded Linux (or other Unix systems), such as wireless routers. Dropbear's mailing list is low-volume and allows you to be notified about new releases or to discuss Dropbear. Dropbear has a small memory footprint that is suitable for memory-constrained environments. Dropbear can compile to a 110kB statically linked binary with uClibc (only minimal options chosen). Dropbear server implements X11 Forwarding and authentication-agent for OpenSSH clients. To save space, the server, client and keygen can all be compiled into one binary (like busybox). Multi-hop mode uses SSH TCP Forwarding to tunnel through multiple SSH hosts with a single command.