Media Coverage

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January, 2001

Top Ten Secure Shell FAQs, O'Reilly Network, January 25, 2001
Top ten questions and usability tips from Richard Silverman, coauthor of SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, also known as the Snail book.

OpenSSH 2.3 And SSH Secure Shell 2.4, Planet IT, January 9, 2001
OpenSSH 2.3 vs. SSH Communications 2.4 under Linux, a review by Pete Loshin.

December, 2000

Red Hat 7.0 Review, FreeOS.com, December 24, 2000
Just in time for the shopping frenzy, Red Hat Linux now includes OpenSSH.

The 101 Uses of OpenSSH: Part I, Linux Journal, December 14, 2000
Paranoid Penguin columnist Mick Bauer gives a quick description of the history of OpenSSH, then writes about the cool things you can do with it.

Securing Linux: Part 2, FreeOS.com, December 13, 2000
In a continuing series of how-to articles, Trevor Warren lists more proactive security measures for Linux, including OpenSSH.

Interview with Kurt Seifried of SecurityPortal.com, Linux Security Brasil, December 4, 2000
In an interview by Renato Murilo Langona, security columnist and researcher Kurt Seifried lists OpenSSH among his indispensible security tools.

Protect Your Data with OpenSSH, Linux Magazine, December 2000
An introduction to secure communications using OpenSSH, by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier (paper only for now).

November, 2000

Keep Tux Safe, Sm@rt Partner, ZD Net, November 30, 2000
"All of the "r" services (rsh, rlogin and rcp) should be removed entirely and replaced, if necessary, with OpenSSH. If possible, OpenSSH also should replace telnet and ftp", writes David Raikow.

Replacing Telnet; OpenSSH, a secure alternative , FreeOS, November 21, 2000
Mayank Sarup gives step-by-step guide to installing OpenSSH and its supporting packages, Zlib and OpenSSL.

Building OpenSSH 2.3.0 on Mac OS X Public Beta, stepwise.com, November 18, 2000
Another platform for OpenSSH! Scott Anguish notes that the system comes with a not-for-commercial-use version of SSH, so he walks the reader through the steps necessary to install and configure OpenSSH.

October, 2000

Installing and Configuring OpenSSH, SysAdmin Magazine, October 2000
Matt Lesko gives a concise yet thorough tutorial on OpenSSH, its beginnings, installation and dependencies, and use. Also covers add-ons and some Windows clients.

September, 2000

Kostenlos geschützt, FreeX Magazin, 4. Quartal 2000 (in German)
Dr. Bernhard Röhrig provides a complete technical article on OpenSSH, including detailed instructions on installing it with the necessary dependencies under Linux, how it works and how to use it. He also covers scp and port tunnelling.
[FreeX's home page doesn't reprint the issue articles.]

RSA Algorithm Released: Update, Security Portal, September 7, 2000
Kurt Seifried does a credible job of sorting through the confusion surrounding the RSA patent, and to RSA Inc.'s announcement that it is releasing it into the public domain. He cites OpenSSH as one of many programs that will benefit from the additional freedom.

August, 2000

Complete Reference Guide to Creating a Remote Log Server, Linux Security, August 22, 2000
OpenSSH is a major component in a secure remote log server described in detail by Eric Hines and Fyodor Yarochkin.

SSH Communications changes ssh licence , Linux Weekly News, August 17, 2000
SSH changed the licence on ssh again! The new "free software people can use our software freely" licence is similar to the new Motif licence. Perhaps they have realized that you may as well give software to the people who are not going to buy it. In the meantime, most of those people are going to choose OpenSSH anyways.

Red Hat boosts Linux security, Network World Fusion, August 14, 2000
OpenSSH is part of Red Hat's plans to improve the security of their forthcoming 7.0  pinstripe  Linux release.

The Truth About Security, The OutRider Computing Journal, August, 2000
Jason Fink writes a minimalist guide to security for those in too much of a rush to appreciate the finer points. One of his recommendations is to use secure protocols for Internet communications, e.g. OpenSSH.

July, 2000

Interview: Theo de Raadt, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis of OpenSSH.

SSH, Mandrake User, July 14, 2000
Tom Berger writes an extensive OpenSSH tutorial for new users.

SSH 1.2.30 released, new restrictive license, Linux Weekly News, July 13, 2000
The latest release of SSH.COM's SSH1 offering gets a tepid welcome. "If you haven't already moved over to using OpenSSH, available under a fully free license, this is a good time consider it". There is further commentary in this article in the weekly security pages.

OpenSSH's Cinderella story, ZDNet News, July 10, 2000
Veteran writer Stephan Somogyi tells the tale of a group of "less-than-gruntled" developers who wrote the only unencumbered open source implementation of SSH1 and SSH2.

Why do vendors ship us junk they wouldn't use?, Security Portal, July 5, 2000
Kurt Seifried takes Linux vendors to task for -- among other sins -- shipping telnet enabled by default, and no SSH.

Linux in the home - everywhere in the home, OS Opinion, July, 2000
Peter Colijn, a high school student in Calgary, AB, explains how Linux provides an affordable learning platform at home. "It's also running OpenSSH so I can login from my school to check my e-mail (yes, our high school has about 10 Linux boxes, also running OpenSSH)", he writes.

June, 2000

OpenSSH 2.1.1 released, Linux Weekly News, June 15, 2000
As part of the release announcement, editor Liz Coolbaugh interviews Theo de Raadt on OpenSSH becoming a sort of underground success.

Vince's guide to OpenSSH, LAN Systems Gazette, June 10, 2000
Vince Hillier gives a tutorial on building and using OpenSSH on various Linux distributions.

Exorcise FTP, Telnet and other evil daemons, ZDNet Help & How-To, June 2000
Henry Kingman gives basic inetd security pointers and says you should replace Telnet, and FTP with more modern tools like ssh and scp. Because of the "weird" licence on SSH, commercial users should look at OpenSSH or lsh, he writes.

Building a Secure Gateway System, Linux Gazette, June 2000
Chris Stoddard details the components to building a secure gateway system, including OpenSSH.

May, 2000

SSH: From Secure Administration to Virtual Private Networking, ISP Planet, May 16, 2000
"If you're still administering *NIX servers over the Internet using rsh or telnet, stop right now," says author Lisa Phifer in the lead sentence of her article. She then proceeds to show that it's not a big deal to set up an OpenSSH 2.1 (SSH2) server and tests compatibility with three commercial Windows clients. She also looks at simple VPN configurations.

sufficiently advanced technology: the gathering, NTK Now, May 12, 2000
This take-no-prisoners online zine credits the "Knights of OpenSSH" for the ability to connect to servers from insecure cyber-cafe terminals. The wire is secure, but what about those pesky keystroke loggers? No problem, they say, just use S/KEY one-time passwords with ssh.

OpenSSH now supports the SSH 2 protocol, Linux Weekly News, May 4, 2000
Once again, Linux Weekly News beats the rest of the media, and notices that OpenSSH now supports the SSH 2 protocol. Kudos to them for remembering the history of SSH 2 correctly...

March, 2000

OpenSSH - more secure and less restrictive, The FreeBSD Diary, March 19, 2000
Another discussion about the use of OpenSSH, this time specifically on FreeBSD.

OpenSSH - Be Vewy Vewy Quiet, We're Logging in Remotewy. Heh Heh Heh., Zonker's Product Picks, Linux Magazine, March 2000
A short description of OpenSSH and links for more information.

February, 2000

All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH running on OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris. He is very supportive of the OpenSSH project and its goals.

All About SSH - Part 1, Security Portal, February 14, 2000
A two-part article on SSH by security consultant Seán Boran. Part one explains what SSH is, why you should use it and how to get it onto your Linux or BSD system. The article also surveys the various commercial and free implementations including OpenSSH. Part two, to be published later, promises to focus on OpenSSH.

Open Source Security Tools, Information Security, February 2000
OpenSSH is listed as one of the many open source security tools.

OpenBSD 2.6 - new features, Security Portal, February 9, 2000
OpenSSH is mentioned as part of Kurt Seifried's review of OpenBSD 2.6.

January, 2000

Opening up, government style, ZDNet, January 24, 2000
Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch discusses the possible ramifications for open source software of the recently relaxed US government rules governing crypto exports. However even if Linux distributions were able to freely export strong cryptography, he notes the RSA patent still makes it difficult to use OpenSSH and the OpenSSL library in the USA.

December, 1999

How SSH was freed, Daemonnews, December 1, 1999
Daemonnews reports about the creation of OpenSSH.

November, 1999

Turning on the Zedz, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch delves into the byzantine realm of US cryptography export regulations, and mentions OpenSSH as one of the freely available packages that can be imported into, but not exported from the USA.

October, 1999

Secure Shell integrated into OpenBSD, Freshmeat, October 25, 1999
Freshmeat prints the official OpenSSH press release.

The existence of OpenSSH-1.0 has been confirmed, Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of OpenSSH, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.

The OpenBSD project's announcement of OpenSSH, October 25, 1999
The original announcement which the OpenBSD project made.