Definition and Benefits of SSH Secure Shell (SSH)

Definition and Benefits of SSH Secure Shell or SSH - SSH is a network protocol that allows the exchange of data via a secure channel between two network devices. Widely used in the operating system based on Linux and Unix to access shell accounts, SSH was designed as a replacement for Telnet and other insecure remote shell, which sends the information, especially passwords, in the form of simple text that makes it easy to be intercepted. Encryption used by SSH provides confidentiality and integrity of data over an insecure network such as the Internet.

Benefits of Using SSH

 Benefits of using SSH account is to increase the security of data on your computer when accessing the Internet, because of the presence of SSH as an intermediary account of your internet connection, SSH will provide encryption on all data that is read, a new send it to another server.

Besides being able to perform data encryption, SSH also has the ability to do Port Forwarding which allows us to benefit as follows:

1. Connecting TCP applications (eg web server, mail server, FTP server) more secure (safe)
2. Connecting the bypass (bypassing) the local firewall or proxy.

The second benefit above that is often searched by users of the Internet and use it for the benefit of internet access. By using SSH account can also manage the VPS to be hosting or other functionality.

Accounts using SSH for tunneling your internet connection does not guarantee increase your internet speed. But by using SSH accounts, automatic IP you use will be static and you can use your private records only the one user in the SSH account.

The SSH protocol has many functions, in addition to tunneling functions that we use, we can also use SSH for SFTP, SOCKS4 / 5 proxy, or can also be used to set the VPS or VPS hosting ours especially with Linux OS like CentOS.Untuk using tunneling using SSH we can mengguankan SSH client such as Tunnelier Bitvise or Putty for Windows operating systems.

To get an account and use of SSH, we can get a free SSH account in cjb.net or if we have a VPS providers usually provide SSH also for our VPS settings.

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