Dropbear
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Nov 23, 2025first mention
Aug 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I've switched to Dropbear years ago because of how bloated (and vulnerable) OpenSSH was”
switched from OpenSSHon “Show HN: OxiSH, a modern, memory-safe SSH server”
“I use dropbear to remote unlock over ssh”
Show 1 more
“I will take PuTTY or dropbear in a heartbeat”
Caveats and dissent
“which does not support certs”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: OxiSH, a modern, memory-safe SSH server 1 mention
- Codex Hacked a Samsung TV 1 mention
- SSH certificates: the better SSH experience 1 mention
- Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk 1 mention
- Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp 1 mention
- Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic 1 mention
Data: dropbear.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“I've switched to Dropbear years ago because of how bloated (and vulnerable) OpenSSH was”
“dropbear allows port forwarding with admin creds”
“which does not support certs”
“I use dropbear to remote unlock over ssh”
“I will take PuTTY or dropbear in a heartbeat”
“you can use dropbear/bearssl”