NIST released Interagency Report 7966 this week, a guidance document for organizations using the Secure Shell network protocol for automated access. NIST released a report yesterday urging enterprises ...

As a university student in 1995, I invented a security protocol to protect data-in-transit as it moves through the network. Today, the world knows this protocol as “secure shell” or SSH. Secure shell ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Secure Shell (SSH) is a tool for ...

However, restrictions in HTTP, such as same origin policy, make it difficult to perform such authentications. In this paper, a system to perform “Publickey” authentication over HTTP is provided. It is ...

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Without a centralized key management system, it is virtually impossible for a large enterprise to identify all the trust relationships within its SSH environment, leaving the company vulnerable to ...

The Internet engineering community rebuffed one of its own security gurus this week, by rejecting a request from the inventor of the popular Secure Shell protocol to change the technology’s acronym to ...

SSH, or Secure Shell, is an encrypted protocol (using SSL) to connect to another machine. SSH also supports X11 forwarding to get graphical programs running on one machine to display on another. It is ...

The Internet can be a dangerous place, wrought with fraud and data theft. To help protect your small business data it's a good idea to have a basic understanding of secure Internet protocols. These ...

You may have noticed recent posts from some of the ZDNet bloggers in a series we're calling IT Commandments. Here's a commandment for any of you responsible for administering your company's network: ...