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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, Insightful) by stormreaver on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:00PM

    by stormreaver (5101) on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:00PM (#192198)

    Yeah, and you people have been saying that about mono since, what now? 2004?

    J++ was Microsoft's EEE attempt, and it failed.
    Dot Net was Microsoft's reaction to J++ failing to EEE.
    Mono was was/is a misguided 3rd party trap that has failed to serve Microsoft (so far).

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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:07PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:07PM (#192202) Journal

    Mono isn't in widespread corporate use, but it's in plenty of places, servicing it's niche well.

    It's been 11 years, and mono has some real market share in places like Unity. You're paranoid.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:18PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @06:18PM (#192210)

      I agree, but it's not because you're paranoid that they're not out to get you...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2015, @10:01AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 05 2015, @10:01AM (#192438)

      Paranoid people think someone is out to get them specifically. People informed of history tend to recognize that certain things or organizations are prone to corruption and abuses of power. This is not the same as paranoia.

      • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday June 05 2015, @01:59PM

        by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 05 2015, @01:59PM (#192531) Journal

        Thanks, but it was a colloquial description of unjustified anxieties on the internet, not a clinical diagnosis of a recurring condition.

    • (Score: 1) by stormreaver on Monday June 08 2015, @11:40AM

      by stormreaver (5101) on Monday June 08 2015, @11:40AM (#193607)

      It's been 11 years, and mono has some real market share in places like Unity. You're paranoid.

      Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. You have just given me a very powerful reason to not use Ubuntu.