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Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-will-still-use-putty dept.

AndyTheAbsurd writes:

SSH, or secure shell, is the mainstay of remote access and administration in the Linux world, and the lack of any straightforward equivalent has always been an awkward feature of the Windows world. While there are various third-party options, Windows lacks both a native SSH client, for connecting to Linux machines, and it lacks an SSH server, to support inbound connections from Linux machines.

The PowerShell team announced that this is going to change: Microsoft is going to work with and contribute to OpenSSH, the de facto standard SSH implementation in the Unix world, to bring its SSH client and server to Windows.

Article at Ars Technica

Possible plot twist: Is this newfound support for the SSH protocol and the OpenSSH project actually a new "in" for the NSA to sneak a new backdoor into the protocol?

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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:05PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:05PM (#192086) Journal

    You know that you can still authenticate against untrusted sources, right?

    Having to type your password every time you log in isn't some gigantic burden.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:55PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:55PM (#192193) Homepage Journal

    True, but it's still a deterrent to using it.

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  • (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Friday June 05 2015, @02:40PM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Friday June 05 2015, @02:40PM (#192550) Journal

    I can't trust Microsoft supplied cypher suites. The same way I can't trust RSA Bsafe.

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