What is OpenSSH used for? OpenSSH is a top-notch SSH protocol suite offering robust encryption for various network services, including remote login and file transfers.

Tatu Ylonen has garnered fame in technology circles as the inventor of Secure Shell (SSH), the widely used protocol to protect data communications. The CEO of SSH Communications Security -- whose ...

In 1995, when I was a university student in Helsinki, I developed a security protocol to protect data-in-transit as it moved throughout our network. I named it the "secure shell," or SSH for short ...

The SSH protocol uses public-key cryptography, which means that authenticating users and encrypting their connections requires a private-public key pair.

An international research team from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, and the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has developed a method to detect ...

After several false starts, Microsoft finally is planning to support SSH in Windows and the company’s engineers also will contribute to the OpenSSH project.

The repository hosting service GitHub has announced it is replacing its existing RSA SSH host key with a new one as a precautionary measure after discovering the key was momentarily exposed in a ...

SSH File Transfer Protocol (not to be confused with the earlier, now obsolete Simple File Transfer Protocol), uses the same end-to-end encryption when transferring files across networks - thus ...

There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server ...

SSH servers with Erlang/OTP SSH can be attacked via a critical vulnerability with a maximum rating. Security patches are available.