Paramiko, by Robey Pointer, is a pure-Python library for making SSH2 connections (client or server). It's main use within ROS is to support remote launching for roslaunch.

This ROS package wraps Paramiko 1.7.5 "Ernest", which was released on July 19, 2009. While paramiko is available via OS package managers, the versions available are out of date and do not contain the latest security fixes. This package will be updated as new versions of Paramiko are released.