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Security Portal: All About SSH – Part II/II – OpenSSH

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Seán Boran
Feb 28, 2000

“Feb 28, 2000. This article is the second in a two part series on SSH, the Secure SHell. The focus here is on the OpenSSH implementation.”

“OpenSSH has developed very quickly in the last few months and has an expert team of developers behind it. It will soon surpass SSH1 and probably SSH2.”

“The planned loosening of the U.S. export controls should *hopefully* allow OS vendors to finally ship SSH on all UNIX-like Operating Systems and put telnet/rlogin/rsh/rcp to rest.”

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