[Cryptography] A SSH walk thru

[Peter Fairbrother]

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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