secsh - the Secure Shell protocol

This man-page was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>.

secsh is a protocol suite for secure remote login and other secure network services over an insecure network. It is outlined in [SECSH]. It has three major components: The Transport layer protocol This protocol, specified in [SECSH-TLP], provides server authentication, confidentiality, and integrity with perfect forward secrecy. The User authentication protocol This protocol, specified in [SECSH-AUTH], is used to authenticate a client to a server. The Connection protocol This protocol, specified in [SECSH-CONN], multiplexes an encrypted tunnel into several logical channels.

Several implementations of the secsh protocol suite exist. The SSH2 product of SSH Communications Security Ltd., Finland <URL:http://www.ssh.fi> was the first. The secsh protocol suite has benefited a lot from their experience with their older SSH1 product, which is still in widespread use; it implements an older protocol ([SSH1]). The lsh suite of programs is a free implementation of the secsh protocol suite; it is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

secsh - the Secure Shell protocol

[SECSH-ARCH] T. Ylonen, T. Kivinen, M. Saarinen, T. Rinne and S. Lehtinen, SSHProtocolArchitecture, Internet draft, 6 August 1998 [SECSH-TRANS] T. Ylonen, T. Kivinen, M. Saarinen, T. Rinne and S. Lehtinen, SSHTransportLayerProtocol, Internet draft, 6 August 1998 [SECSH-AUTH] T. Ylonen, T. Kivinen, M. Saarinen, T. Rinne and S. Lehtinen, SSHAuthenticationProtocol, Internet draft, 6 August 1998 [SECSH-CONN] T. Ylonen, T. Kivinen, M. Saarinen, T. Rinne and S. Lehtinen SSHConnectionProtocol, Internet draft, 6 August 1998 [SSH1] T. Ylonen, TheSSH(SecureShell)RemoteLoginProtocol, Internet draft (expired), 15 November 1995

lsh(1), lshd(8), ssh2(1), sshd2(8), ssh1(1), sshd1(8) LSH JANUARY 1999 SECSH(5)

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