This chapter describes the security benefits of using OpenSSH; and shows SSH encryption in action, compared to telnet.
The primary benefit of using OpenSSH is security. SSH provides encryption when remotely connecting to and configuring a host, and allows the same functionality as the older, less secure tools, and adds more features over them.
OpenSSH is found on several different operating systems, and is interoperable - you are able to expect the capability of running OpenSSH on any Linux machine, and its implementation is very similar in Fedora compared to other Linux distributions.
