Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li> writes:

Does anyone know if there are MS-Dos or Mac versions of the ssh client?

There is no MS-DOS client. The authors claim that, "a Macintosh version is in the works, and first versions are expected to be available in August/September 1996." There are Windoze and OS/2 clients.

How much is ssh used?

From the FAQ:

6.2 How widespread is use of ssh? As with every piece of freely available software, this is difficult to find out. The best current estimates are that at least 1000 insitutions in 40 countries use it. This estimate is based on The number of people on the ssh mailing list, around 600, from 40 different countries and several hundred domains. Each week, the ssh home pages are accessed from roughly 5000 different machines, many of them web caches; also, these machines often are different from week to week.

I've not seen much discussion of it but poking around an ISP yielded this:

Ssh (Secure Shell) a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands in a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbi- trary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.

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Looks like a nice little implementation.

Comments anyone?

For further information about it, see: http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh/ There is also a mailing list. Subscription requests should be directed to majordomo@clinet.fi with "subscribe ssh" in the message body. I think that it's technically a great program. However, I have heard some pretty unpleasant stories about legal issues using it in a commercial environment. Dana W. Albrecht dwa@corsair.com