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+New BSD License (BSD)
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+Copyright (c) 2010, RENCI
+All rights reserved.
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+#Introduction#
+This project was inspired by **Sharp.SSH** library which was ported from java and it seems like was not supported for quite some time. This library is a complete rewrite, without any third party dependencies, using parallelism to achieve the best performance possible.
+
+#Features#
+* Execution of SSH command using both synchronous and asynchronous methods
+* Return command execution exit status and other information 
+* Provide SFTP functionality for both synchronous and asynchronous operations
+* Provides SCP functionality
+* Provide status report for upload and download sftp operations to allow accurate progress bar implementation 
+* Remote, dynamic and local port forwarding 
+* Shell/Terminal implementation
+* Specify key file pass phrase
+* Use multiple key files to authenticate 
+* Supports diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1, diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 and diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 key exchange methods
+* Supports 3des-cbc, aes128-cbc, aes192-cbc, aes256-cbc, aes128-ctr, aes192-ctr, aes256-ctr, blowfish-cbc, cast128-cbc, arcfour and twofish encryptions
+* Supports hmac-md5, hmac-sha1, hmac-ripemd160, hmac-sha2-256, hmac-sha2-256-96, hmac-md5-96 and hmac-sha1-96 hashing algorithms
+* Supports publickey, password and keyboard-interactive authentication methods 
+* Supports RSA and DSA private key 
+* Supports DES-EDE3-CBC, DES-EDE3-CFB, DES-CBC, AES-128-CBC, AES-192-CBC and AES-256-CBC algorithms for private key encryption
+* Supports two-factor or higher authentication
+* Supports SOCKS4, SOCKS5 and HTTP Proxy
+
+#Framework Support#
+* .NET Framework 3.5 
+* .NET Framework 4.0 
+* Silverlight 4 
+* Silverlight 5 
+* Windows Phone 7.1 
+* Windows Phone 8.0
+
+#Building SSH.NET#
+
+Software              | .NET 3.5 | .NET 4.0 | SL 4 | SL 5 | WP 71 | WP 80
+--------------------- | :------: | :------: | :--: | :--: | :---: | :---:
+Windows Phone SDK 8.0 |          |          | x    | x    | x     | x
+Visual Studio 2012    | x        | x        | x    | x    | x     | x
+
+[![NDepend](http://download-codeplex.sec.s-msft.com/Download?ProjectName=sshnet&DownloadId=629750)](http://ndepend.com)