A Hack Week 25 project seeks to finish a native SSH implementation written in the Zig programming language that gives developers a lightweight, flexible alternative for experimenting with the secure-shell protocol.

The effort builds on an incomplete implementation that already covers primitives, keys, certificates and much of the agent protocol.

The project’s 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.

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.

Project goals include:

• 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).

Resource links by the project maintainers include several Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments (RFC) that define SSH and related extensions, plus Zig’s own documentation to guide implementers.

Interested developers can join the Hack Week project or follow the progress.

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, Weblate and Aeon Desktop. Hack Week has also seeded projects that later grew into widely used products; the origins of ownCloud and its fork Nextcloud derive from a Hack Week project started more than a decade ago.

For more information, visit hackweek.opensuse.org.

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After I was able to get away from more conventional spots, I was free to roam the grounds and get to the rest of the spots. The castle tour took me an unnatural amount of time and it wasn't that generational with good photo spots. But I already explained the story in a previous shot. So let me tell you more about this one.
Fortune was largely not on my side while at Himeji. Perhaps you are familiar with the angle with the red bridge, sakura branches over the river, castle in the back, and maybe a boat. So yeah, I headed over there and there wasn't a single blossom on that branch. I will likely never post those images cause the main attributes are not there and I'm not willing to go that far to cheat. They even put a large fence there to stop people from getting the shot if it was what it was supposed to be anyways.
But since I was on the far side of the castle, my first thought was what else I could do here. I had a petting zoo down the road, and some more bridges further down the road. The haze was getting worse as the day progressed. And since the petting zoo had a payed entry, I assume you already know which option I went with.
In editing I decided to take a different approach and go for a more muted look to both highlight the castle better, give it a more aged look, and to eliminate the haze. The very precise and unique borders of each object in the image made masking a bit more time consuming than normal. There was a singular person walking across the bridge in one of the frames I got and like normal, I considered editing her out. But on second thought, it provides a nice sense of scale to the trees, the hill, and the castle atop it all. It's one of the better historical shots I've taken.