OpenSSH

About OpenSSH

is a FREE version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users of the Internet rely on. Users of telnet, rlogin, and ftp may not realize that their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted, but it is. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. Additionally, OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH protocol versions.

The OpenSSH suite replaces rlogin and telnet with the ssh program, rcp with scp, and ftp with sftp. Also included is sshd (the server side of the package), and the other utilities like ssh-add, ssh-agent, ssh-keysign, ssh-keyscan, ssh-keygen and sftp-server.

OpenSSH is developed by the OpenBSD Project. The software is developed in countries that permit cryptography export and is freely useable and re-useable by everyone under a BSD license.

The portable OpenSSH follows development of the official version, but releases are not synchronized. Portable releases are marked with a ‘p’ (e.g. 4.4p1). The official OpenBSD source will never use the ‘p’ suffix, but will instead increment the version number when they hit ‘stable spots’ in their development.

Download: OpenSSH 5.2 | OpenSSH 5.2 Portable