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 SSH.NET is a Secure Shell (SSH-2) library for .NET, optimized for parallelism.
 
 [![Version](https://img.shields.io/nuget/vpre/SSH.NET.svg)](https://www.nuget.org/packages/SSH.NET)
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 [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/ih77qu6tap3o92gu/branch/develop?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/ih77qu6tap3o92gu/branch/develop)
 
 ## Introduction