Secure Shell (secsh) -------------------- Charter Last Modified: 26-Feb-97 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Perry Metzger Security Area Director(s): Jeffrey Schiller Security Area Advisor: Jeffrey Schiller Mailing Lists: General Discussion:ietf-ssh@clinet.fi To Subscribe: majordomo@clinet.fi In Body: subscribe ietf-ssh@clinet.fi in body Archive: Description of Working Group: The goal of the working group is to update and standardize the popular SSH protocol. SSH provides support for secure remote login, secure file transfer, and secure TCP/IP and X11 forwardings. It can automatically encrypt, authenticate, and compress transmitted data. The working group will attempt to assure that the SSH protocol o provides strong security against cryptanalysis and protocol attacks, o can work reasonably well without a global key management or certificate infrastructure, o can utilize existing certificate infrastructures (e.g., DNSSEC, SPKI, X.509) when available, o can be made easy to deploy and take into use, o requires minimum or no manual interaction from users, o is reasonably clean and simple to implement. The resulting protocol will operate over TCP/IP or other reliable but insecure transport. It is intended to be implemented at the application level. Goals and Milestones: Feb 97 Submit Internet-Draft on SSH-2.0 protocol Apr 97 Decide on Transport Layer protocol at Memphis IETF. Aug 97 Finalize upper level protocols at Munich IETF. Sep 97 Submit Internet-Drafts to IESG to consider for publication as RFCs. Dec 97 Meet at DC IETF meeting. Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- ------------------------------------------ Mar 97 Oct 97 SSH Transport Layer Protocol Mar 97 Oct 97 SSH Authentication Protocol Mar 97 Oct 97 SSH Connection Protocol Oct 97 New SSH Protocol Architecture Request For Comments: None to date.