svlug-ssh_vs_ssl_more_info

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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:49:57 +0300 (IDT)
From: Ira Abramov <lists-svlug@ira.abramov.org>
Cc: SV GNU/Linux <svlug@lists.svlug.org>
Subject: Re: [svlug]  SSL vs. SSH

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, SB wrote:

> Okay, does SSH use SSL based sockets or plain sockets?

SSH encrypts the channel using a similar set of encryption algorithems,
which may infact even be carried out by the same routines in the openssl
library, but the handshake is very different, no host certificate and
signatures involved and authentication is not skipable to the best of my
knowledge. its protocol also allows for multiple substreams to allow TCP
and X tunneling. in other words, it's a completely seperate protocol,
non-interchangable.

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