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Article | REF: H5235 V1

The SSH protocol

Authors: Ibrahim HAJJEH, Mohamad BADRA

Publication date: October 10, 2006

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6. The main SSH distributions

There are several distributions of the SSH protocol, the two most important of which are OpenSSH , which comes with most Linux versions, and Tectia from SSH inc .

OpenSSH is a free, GNU-licensed implementation of the SSH protocol. The project was initially supported by the OpenBSD project: it was a reworking of SSH protocol version 1.2.12 (the latest free version from Tau Ylönen), integrated into the OpenBSD 2.6 operating system. Numerous developers then joined the project to add features, improve code portability and fix certain protocol...

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