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Retrieving host key of remote SSH server using Java

I want to be able to retrieve the host key of a remote SSH host using Java code. Is there any library that does this, I looked into JSch but couldn’t find what I wanted. I am aware that I can run the terminal command ssh-keyscan <hostname> through Java, but I want this to be the last resort. Seeki…

JSch SFTP connections getting stuck

We have a java 7 code base where we are using Apache commons vfs2 v2.2 which is using JSch-0.1.54 as sftp provider. Now, the use case is to transfer files to a remote host via sftp. But, every now and then, the file upload process gets stuck. After taking the thread dump of the application, we found both the …