How does SSH work - part five
The final piece of SSH-2's layered architecture is the _connection_ layer, which provides network services
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How does SSH work - part four
Another very commonly used authentication method is _publickey authentication_ , which is based on public key encryption.
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How does SSH work – part six - SFTP
The most common subsystem available is SFTP, which provides commands to transfer and manipulate files.
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How does SSH work - part three
SSH-2 uses a layered architecture, consisting of a transport layer, a user authentication layer, and a connection layer (described here).
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How does SSL/TLS work – part five - FTPS
An earlier group of posts in this series covered the SSL/TLS protocol in detail. They neglected, however, to mention one of the most common uses of SSL/TLS - to implement a secure form of file transfer known as FTPS.
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What are digital certificates?
In How does public key encryption work?, it was explained that there needs to be a way of reliably associating public keys with their owners. Using someone's public key to …
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What are cryptographic hashes?
Cryptographic hash algorithms are important mathematical functions used widely in software, particularly in secure protocols such as SSL/TLS and SSH.
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What is encryption?
The first post in our series about new secure network protocols concerns the most important concept required for understanding security, encryption.
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How does SSH work – part one
SSH is a secure network protocol that can used used on any platform for any purpose requiring secure network communication.
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How does SSH work – part two
This post will explain the main features of the transport layer.
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