Secure Shell (SSH)
SSH is used to log in to a remote computer system using port 22, much in the same way that Telnet (port 23) has been used in the past for the same purpose. The big difference between Telnet and SSH, however, is that SSH provides significantly enhanced security for your connection. SSH is a program/client that provides an encrypted communications path between two hosts over an untrusted, potentially insecure network such as the Internet. Therefore, it prevents users’ passwords and other sensitive data from being transmitted across the network in clear-text form. SSH helps solve one of the most important security problem on the Internet: hackers stealing or cracking passwords.
Used since 1995, SSH1 was designed to replace the ...
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