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| 2015-02-19 | 2015-02-19 | ||
| no summary (martin) | ssh-1 is hardly used nowadays (and should not be used) (martin) | ||
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| ===== SSH Protocols ===== | ===== SSH Protocols ===== | ||
| - | Two major versions of the SSH protocol are in widespread use. | + | Two major versions of the SSH protocol exist, SSH-2 and SSH-1. Most %%SSH%% servers nowadays allow modern and secure %%SSH-2%% only. |
| - | The SSH-1 protocol is an older version that's still | + | |
| - | widely supported despite its age and some technical issues. The SSH-2 | + | |
| - | protocol has become the de-facto installation standard, though some systems only support SSH-1. In addition, many sites that use SSH-2 disable the SSH-1 protocol | + | |
| - | for security reasons. | + | |
| - | WinSCP's default setting is to prefer SSH-2 and negotiate | + | WinSCP's default setting is to prefer %%SSH-2%% and negotiate·down to %%SSH-1%%, if %%SSH-2%% is not available. If you want WinSCP not to allow deprecated and insecure %%SSH-1%% at all, you can configure this in [[ui_login_ssh|SSH preferences]]. |
| - | down to SSH-1 if SSH-2 is not available. If the majority of systems you | + | |
| - | connect to are using SSH-2, you may wish to change this setting in the | + | |
| - | [[ui_login_ssh|SSH preferences]]. | + | |
| ===== Compression ===== | ===== Compression ===== | ||