January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
8h 6m
English
Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for communicating on an unsecure network. The most common use of SSH is in connecting to a remote server and interacting with a shell. File transfer is also used via SCP and SFTP over the SSH protocol. SSH was created to replace the plaintext protocol, Telnet. Over time, there have been numerous RFCs to define SSH. Here is a partial list to give you an idea of what is defined. Since it is such a common and critical protocol, it is worth taking the time to understand the details. The following are some of the RFCs:
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