NewsForge: Secure Shell Standard Moving Forward

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 30, 2006

“The Secure Shell protocol is one step closer to becoming an
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard. Earlier this month
SSH Communications Security Corp. announced that the Secure Shell
protocol specifications have reached Proposed Standard status.

“Various implementations of the Secure Shell protocol are
already in widespread usage, so one might wonder whether this new
status will have any impact–particularly for the OpenSSH project,
which is widely used on Linux and BSD-based systems…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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