SSH

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See also: Encrypting Your Network Links | Encryption | Privacy

(Topic Includes "SFTP")

Acronym: Secure SHell

Acronym: SFTP - Secure File Transfer Program

A protocol that uses encryption and authentication to secure network links. Most often referring to a secure Telnet tool.

OpenSSH is the most common implementation.

Clients

• PuTTY - Free SSH tool for Windows and UNIX
• Whitehorn Secure Terminal - Free SSH/Telnet client for Windows
• WinSCP - Free SFTP/SCP client for Windows
• JavaSSH - free Terminal, Telnet, and SSH client (GPL)
• AutoSSH - Automatically reconnects.
• SSH.com - commercial client
• FreSSH a free implementation of the SSH protocol
• PenguiNet PenguiNet is an advanced Windows SSH client, developed and published by Silicon Circus
• FUGU - great graphical front-end for OS X SFTP (SSH is native on OS X, just open a Terminal window)

Servers

• OpenSSH - BSD licensed, the most common implementation
• LSH - A GNU implementation of the SSH protocols
• Dropbear SSH server - very lightweight, often used in embedded settings such as OpenWRT
• OpenSSH for Windows formerly at networksimplicity.com
• SSH.com commercial server

Links

• Explanation of SSH from MIT's Math dept.
• O'Reilly book on the Secure Shell
• Unixclan shells Free accounts on a Debian Gnu/Linux server.
• SSH related RFCs : RFC 4250, RFC 4251, RFC 4252, RFC 4253, RFC 4254, RFC 4255, RFC 4256, RFC 4335, RFC 4344, RFC 4419, RFC 4462, RFC 4716, RFC 4819
• Archives of the secsh IETF working group