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SSH is a common program allowing a shell (command interpreter) to be properly used over a secure connection. By secure, here, after all that the text is encrypted, authenticated and strength checked. The security stops opponents studying the contents of the data being transmitted, the authentication allows both the client and the server to be certain that they're linked to the other, and not for some intermediate system in a man-in-the-middle attack, and the integrity checking ensures that the data is not being changed during transit. Together, these three features supply a secure connection.
However, the password based login feature sends your password through this link, to the remote server, where it's hashed and compared with the value in the password file. To many, despite the fact that the text is protected, this isn't adequate. SSH allows the use of public key authentication to login to a host. Here, you publish your public key to the machine, and keep your private key on the client machine, optionally password protected so that no one can steal your private key file and use it to achieve access without a password.
Now, if the SSH link is established, the machine will need to always check the validation of the client; that's, ensure it's you logging in. This is formerly done by requesting your password, and comparing it from the stored password hash. Now, the server encrypts a randomly generated token against your public key, and sends this to you. The private key connected with your public key, stored in a file to which only you've access, either by password protection, filesystem permissions and other means, may be the only key in a position to decrypt this message. Now, your SSH client will decrypt the message and send it back once again to the host, which compares it contrary to the original value. In fact, the validation is often also examined in the opposite direction, using the servers public key, which can be stored by your client. When the machine knows you hold the private key which corresponds to the general public key, it allows you access.
Therefore, you might ask, what's the security benefit here? Well, no secret information is being transmitted. You're no more transmitting a password, nor are you transmitting any of your private key file. You're using the keys to encrypt and decrypt an item of time is worked one by random data, which only. Anyone who did somehow find a way to listen in with this data stream would not find a way to restore entry by playing back your code, or even by playing back the same data exchange, as another value would be encoded the next time you login, and only the personal key itself can decrypt that.
Public Key authentication is supported in OpenSSH, and also in PuTTY and a great many other SSH systems. Check always your systems documentation for details on how exactly to use public-key based logins. visit http://oissg.org/wiki/index.php?title=Finding+Game+Server+Hosting++What+You+Really+should+Know
