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February 14, 2005
SSH Tectia Newsletter Vol. 11 - Announcing the Next Generation of the Secure Shell Technology
SSH Communications Security >> http://www.ssh.com
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[ SSH TECTIA NEWSLETTER (VOLUME 11) ] < February 14, 2005 >
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* Product News - Announcing the Next Generation of the Secure Shell Technology
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10 years since the invention of SSH1, SSH Communications Security continues to lead the development of the Secure Shell technology. Today, SSH has announced the third complete implementation of the Secure Shell protocol, the revolutionary new generation SSH G3TM architecture.
The new SSH G3 architecture is based on the popular Secure Shell protocol, developed by SSH. The new advanced architecture embodies major new inherent features, including dramatically enhanced data transfer throughput, significantly increased scalability, and the world's first commercially available implementation of the high-speed CryptiCore® encryption algorithm. SSH G3 is fully compatible with the Secure Shell v2 standards specified by the IETF.
The new SSH G3 architecture improves data transfer performance up to 200% with considerably lower memory consumption compared to other Secure Shell implementations, and allows thousands of simultaneous users to tunnel to one server. The new SSH G3 architecture will enable companies to smoothly and securely provide file transfers and application connectivity both internally and externally throughout the network.
The new Secure-Shell-based SSH Tectia products incorporating the SSH G3 architecture will be available for evaluation on request, and will reach general availability during summer 2005.
For more information please visit http://www.ssh.com/campaign/g3/ssh-newsletter.html.
* Tips & Tricks: Changing Expired User Passwords on Unix Systems
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On Unix systems with password aging in use, a user with an expired password gets prompted for a new password. Traditionally changing expired password has been done by running the system command "passwd" as a forced command which replaces the actual user session.
For SSH Tectia Connector users and chrooted users changing an expired password is not possible as a forced command. An alternative to this is to use the "AuthPassword.ChangePlugin" option in sshd2_config. The password-change plugin allows the password to be changed during the authentication phase, instead of running "passwd" as a forced command.
Modify the SSH Tectia Server configuration file sshd2_config to take the password-change plugin into use:
-- sshd2_config
AuthPassword.ChangePlugin /usr/local/libexec/ssh-passwd-plugin
--
* New Documents Available at SSH Resource Center
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- SSH G3 - White Paper: This document introduces the third-generation, high-performance Secure Shell (SecSh) protocol implementation SSH G3TM designed to overcome the processing bottlenecks in securing throughput-intensive file transfers and large-scale business-application use. The protocol architecture, its features, and encryption performance data are provided in the document.
http://www.ssh.com/campaign/g3/ssh-newsletter.html
-Compliance News: This document provides information on regulatory challenges related to information security and on how to implement effective technical safeguards and controls to better comply with legislations such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act and HIPAA. Compliance News also features articles on recent trends that have an impact on compliance projects such as deperimeterization, application security, insider threats, and selection criteria for choosing between open-source versus commercial security software. The target audience of the newspaper covers both IT professionals who want to gain a better understanding of regulative requirements, and compliance professionals who want to understand the role of information security in many regulations.
http://www.ssh.com/campaign/compliance/newsletter.html
* Trade Shows & Events
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Upcoming events
We will also be participating in various other events throughout the world. More information is available on our events site at http://www.ssh.com/company/events/.
* SSH Headlines
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February 14, 2005
SSH Unveils SSH G3, a Powerful Third Generation Secure Shell Architecture for SSH Tectia
http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/article/610/
January 24, 2005
SSH Announces SSH Tectia Solution for IBM Mainframes
http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/article/601/
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Sincerely,
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[ SSH TECTIA NEWSLETTER (VOLUME 11) ] < February 14, 2005 >
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- Product News - Announcing the Next Generation of the Secure Shell Technology
- Tips & Tricks
- New Documents at SSH Resource Center
- Trade Shows & Events
- SSH Headlines
- Subscribing & Unsubscribing to Mailing Lists
* Product News - Announcing the Next Generation of the Secure Shell Technology
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
10 years since the invention of SSH1, SSH Communications Security continues to lead the development of the Secure Shell technology. Today, SSH has announced the third complete implementation of the Secure Shell protocol, the revolutionary new generation SSH G3TM architecture.
The new SSH G3 architecture is based on the popular Secure Shell protocol, developed by SSH. The new advanced architecture embodies major new inherent features, including dramatically enhanced data transfer throughput, significantly increased scalability, and the world's first commercially available implementation of the high-speed CryptiCore® encryption algorithm. SSH G3 is fully compatible with the Secure Shell v2 standards specified by the IETF.
The new SSH G3 architecture improves data transfer performance up to 200% with considerably lower memory consumption compared to other Secure Shell implementations, and allows thousands of simultaneous users to tunnel to one server. The new SSH G3 architecture will enable companies to smoothly and securely provide file transfers and application connectivity both internally and externally throughout the network.
The new Secure-Shell-based SSH Tectia products incorporating the SSH G3 architecture will be available for evaluation on request, and will reach general availability during summer 2005.
For more information please visit http://www.ssh.com/campaign/g3/ssh-newsletter.html.
* Tips & Tricks: Changing Expired User Passwords on Unix Systems
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Unix systems with password aging in use, a user with an expired password gets prompted for a new password. Traditionally changing expired password has been done by running the system command "passwd" as a forced command which replaces the actual user session.
For SSH Tectia Connector users and chrooted users changing an expired password is not possible as a forced command. An alternative to this is to use the "AuthPassword.ChangePlugin" option in sshd2_config. The password-change plugin allows the password to be changed during the authentication phase, instead of running "passwd" as a forced command.
Modify the SSH Tectia Server configuration file sshd2_config to take the password-change plugin into use:
-- sshd2_config
AuthPassword.ChangePlugin /usr/local/libexec/ssh-passwd-plugin
--
* New Documents Available at SSH Resource Center
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- SSH G3 - White Paper: This document introduces the third-generation, high-performance Secure Shell (SecSh) protocol implementation SSH G3TM designed to overcome the processing bottlenecks in securing throughput-intensive file transfers and large-scale business-application use. The protocol architecture, its features, and encryption performance data are provided in the document.
http://www.ssh.com/campaign/g3/ssh-newsletter.html
-Compliance News: This document provides information on regulatory challenges related to information security and on how to implement effective technical safeguards and controls to better comply with legislations such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act and HIPAA. Compliance News also features articles on recent trends that have an impact on compliance projects such as deperimeterization, application security, insider threats, and selection criteria for choosing between open-source versus commercial security software. The target audience of the newspaper covers both IT professionals who want to gain a better understanding of regulative requirements, and compliance professionals who want to understand the role of information security in many regulations.
http://www.ssh.com/campaign/compliance/newsletter.html
* Trade Shows & Events
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Upcoming events
- San Francisco, CA, USA: RSA Conference 2005, February 15ｭ™7
- Boston, USA: LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, February 15™7
- Anaheim, CA, USA: SHARE User Events, February 28 - March 2
We will also be participating in various other events throughout the world. More information is available on our events site at http://www.ssh.com/company/events/.
* SSH Headlines
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
February 14, 2005
SSH Unveils SSH G3, a Powerful Third Generation Secure Shell Architecture for SSH Tectia
http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/article/610/
January 24, 2005
SSH Announces SSH Tectia Solution for IBM Mainframes
http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/article/601/
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# SSH Tectia Newsletter Mailing List #
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This e-mail has been sent to evaluators of SSH products and others who have been in contact with us in the past and who have agreed that we send you the SSH Tectia Newsletter.
To unsubscribe from the mailing list, send a blank e-mail to from the e-mail account you wish to unsubscribe , or visit http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/unsubscribe.mpl.
# SSH Security & Release Alert Mailing List #
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If you would like to receive security alerts and notices about new version releases of SSH products, please subscribe to SSH Security & Release Alert mailing list at http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/subscribe.mpl.
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Sincerely,
SSH Communications Security >> http://www.ssh.com
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