The Secure Shell — SSH — allows you to send secure, encrypted, communications between computers that is nearly impossible to crack. Here's how to use it in macOS. Before personal computers, people ...

SSH was a welcome replacement for Telnet when it emerged in the mid-1990s, since it encrypted the connection to conceal it ...

I use putty to ssh to a Linux machine to maintain a tunnel for a proxy server. The ssh connection is sometimes quite unreliable and drops, this is likely due to a network beyond my control. Is there ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

If shutting off telnet access and insisting that all system-to-system connections use ssh isn’t enough to toughen your system’s hide, here’s another way to make your servers just a little more ...

Secure Shell (SSH) is a tool I use daily. On my local area network (LAN), I have several Linux desktops and servers I need to access at any given moment, some of which do not have graphical user ...

If you run a lot of terminal tabs or scripts that all need to make OpenSSH connections to the same server, you can speed them all up with multiplexing: making the first one act as the master and ...

What is SSL/TLS? SSL and TLS are protocols used on the transport layer, which is used to provide a secure connection between two nodes in a computer network. The first widely used protocol that was ...