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SSH: Secure Shell or Secure Socket Shell

Secure Shell Protocol(SSH) is a Unix-based command interface and protocol for secure remote login and other secure network services over an insecure network. It is widely used by network administrators to control Web and other kinds of servers remotely. SSH is actually a suite of utilities - slogin, ssh, and scp - that are secure versions of the earlier UNIX utilities, rlogin, rsh, and rcp. SSH consists of three major components：(1) Transport Layer Protocol [SSH-TRANS]；(2) User Authentication Protocol [SSH-USERAUTH] ；(3) Connection Protocol [SSH-CONNECT].

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SSH: Secure Shell or Secure Socket Shell