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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.
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?
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Funny) by kaszz on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:35PM
I'm still waiting for the special option:
ssh..
-K K..K....K...K.k..kill kenny! Use with care, will download zero-day expl01t and wipe out any Microsoft computer on sight.
The SSH protocol probably needs this "extension" so that any free operating system may extinguish yucky things on the network in an efficient way. In some firewalls it's possible to identify TCP stack and block traffic based on that..