Title: Overview of SSH software

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URL: http://www.securityportal.com/lskb/10000100/kben10000133.html
Date created: 07/08/2000
Date modified: 10/08/2000
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Authors(s): Kurt Seifried seifried@securityportal.com
Topic: Overview of SSH software
Keywords: Network/SSH

Summary:

SSH is a secure protocol and set of tools to replace some common (insecure) ones. It was designed from the beginning to offer a maximum of security and allows remote access to servers in a secure manner. SSH can be used to secure any network based traffic, by setting it up as a 'pipe' (i.e. binding it to a certain port at both ends). This is quite kludgy but good for such things as using X across the Internet. In addition to this the server components runs on most UNIX systems, and NT, and the client components runs on pretty much anything. There are numerous OpenSource clients and server for UNIX and Windows.

More information:

SSH software - OpenSSH

The most comprehensive list of SSH client software available is it: http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/security/ssh-clients.

Fresh Free FiSSH

Most of us still have to sit in front of windows workstations, and ssh clients for windows are a pain to find. Fresh Free FiSSH is a free ssh client for Windows 95/NT 4.0. Although not yet completed, I would recommend keeping your eye on it if you are like me and have many Windows workstations. The URL is: http://www.massconfusion.com/ssh/.

Tera Term

Tera Term is a free Telnet client for Windows, and has an add-on DLL to enable ssh support. Tera Term is available from: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html. The add-on DLL for SSH support is available from: http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html

putty

putty is a Windows SSH client, pretty good, and completely free, and also small (184k currently). You can download it from: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty.html.

mindterm

mindterm is a free java ssh client, you can get it at: http://www.mindbright.se/mindterm/.

The Java Telnet Application

The Java Telnet Application supports ssh,and is free, you can get it at: http://www.mud.de/se/jta/.

Secure CRT

A commercial Telnet / SSH client from Vandyke software. You can download / purchase it at: http://www.vandyke.com/.

Fsh

Fsh is stands for “Fast remote command execution” and is similar in concept to RSH/RCP. It avoids the expense of constantly creating encrypted sessions by bring up an encrypted tunnel using SSH or LSH, and running all the commands over it. You can get it from: http://www.lysator.liu.se/fsh/.

SSH Win32 ports

Ports of SSH to Win32 available at: http://guardian.htu.tuwien.ac.at/therapy/ssh/.

LSH

LSH is a free implementation of the SSH protocol (both client and server), LSH is GNU licensed and is starting to look like the alternative (commercially speaking) to SSH (which is not free anymore). You can download it from: http://www.net.lut.ac.uk/psst/, please note it is under development.

OSSH

I couldn't find a whole lot of information on this but it appears to be a version of SSH that is independently maintained, with some enhancements (like SecureID support). You can get it from: ftp://ftp.nada.kth.se/pub/krypto/ossh/.