Wikipedia: History of Secure Shell

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A Unix shell program for logging into, and executing commands on, a remote computer. Secure Shell is intended to replace rlogin? and rsh?, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11? connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.

A program for logging into, and executing commands on, a remote computer. Secure Shell is intended to replace rlogin? and rsh?, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11? connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.

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see also telnet

The program is common as a Unix shell program, but there exists implementations for most modern platforms, including Microsoft Windows (where one of the most popular is Putty?).

A second version is named SSH2.

see also telnet, OpenSSH

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