[Cryptography] A SSH walk thru
Peter Fairbrother
peter at tsto.co.uk
Mon Jan 6 20:52:25 EST 2020
On 06/01/2020 16:55, Dan Kolis wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> if your like me, you enjoy thinking some good thing is happening when
> your http is rewritten to https automatically.
>
> What is under the covers here ? We knows its "SSH".
No, that is SSL (or TLS) - a different beast(s) altogether.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS
Peter Fairbrother
But some more detail
> is good to know:
>
> It begins:
>
> Introduction
> Secure Shell (SSH) is a widely used Transport Layer Protocol to secure
> connections between clients and servers. SSH is the underlying protocol
> that Teleport uses to secure connections between clients and servers.
> Below is a relatively brief description of the handshake that occurs to
> establish a secure channel between a client and a server.
>
> Is at:
> https://gravitational.com/blog/ssh-handshake-explained/
>
> Names the negotiated algo names of methods too. Quite a few tables of
> whats inside this commonly applied, obviously very competent work....
>
>
>
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