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PROPOSED STANDARD

Updated by:

RFC 8308,RFC 8332

Authors:

T. Ylonen
C. Lonvick, Ed.

Stream:

IETF

Source:

secsh (sec)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4252

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Abstract

The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a protocol for secure remote loginand other secure network services over an insecure network. Thisdocument describes the SSH authentication protocol framework andpublic key, password, and host-based client authentication methods.Additional authentication methods are described in separate documents.The SSH authentication protocol runs on top of the SSH transport layerprotocol and provides a single authenticated tunnel for the SSHconnection protocol. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.