OpenSSH 5.6 has just been released. OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes SFTP client and server support. Once again, we would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their continued support of the project, especially those who contributed code or patches, reported bugs, tested snapshots or donated to the project.

Version 5.3 of OpenSSH is released. OpenSSH encrypts all network-traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking & other attacks.

The OpenSSH developers have released version 5.6/5.6p1 of their open source SSH (Secure Shell) implementation, fixing a number of bugs from the previous version and adding several new features

OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation, that also includes sftp, client and server support. This new relase fixed several non-critical errors and contains some useful additions.

OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support. One of main feature of this release is eleptic curve cryptography support (ECDH, ECDSA).

The Goal of this tutorial

Get a secure, encrypted connection to a remote machine without typing in a password.
What is OpenSSH ?

OpenSSH is a secure way of connecting to remote computers and transfering files. The OpenSSH suite includes the following programs (among others)

From time to time there are rumors about OpenSSH zero day exploit. Here are a few things you need to tweak in order to improve OpenSSH server security.

Just when I think I know everything I need to know about OpenSSH, I end up learning something new and tremendously useful. Today, that would be the -D argument

The OpenSSH package in the Debian 4.0 "Etch" Linux distribution has been found to still have a vulnerability which may lead to a deliberate or accidental denial of service. Debian has released an update to its OpenSSH packages to remedy the issue.