On Apr 26, 2007, at 04:51, Francois Piette wrote:
> SSH => Secure SHell, a cryptography system aimed at "telnet", mainly
> on Unix
> boxes. Sometimes used as tunneling for other purposes (More of a hack
> in my
> opinion)
SSH works pretty well as a tunneling protocol for secure
communications, it is most definitely not a hack. The main difference
with SSL is that it does not require security certificates because it
relies on either Public Key Infrastructure or on trust being
established through other external mechanisms. Mainly, it was intended
for secure communications between known, trusted networks, and as such,
it avoids the overhead of generalized mechanisms.
The problem is that most people see "Secure" in the name and
automatically think its a one-size-fits-all. But arguably, the same
could be said for SSL.
dZ.
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