diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/virtual/openssh/metadata.xml b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/virtual/openssh/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..de9d784241
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/virtual/openssh/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>base-system@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Base System</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<stabilize-allarches/>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/virtual/openssh/openssh-0.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/virtual/openssh/openssh-0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cb57d4eb59
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+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/virtual/openssh/openssh-0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="Virtual for net-misc/openssh and variants"
+
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86"
+IUSE="ssl"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	|| (
+		>=net-misc/openssh-9.3_p1-r1[ssl?]
+		>=net-misc/openssh-contrib-9.3_p1[ssl?]
+	)"