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[ SSH TECTIA NEWSLETTER (VOLUME 18) ] < December 19, 2005 >

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• Seasons Greetings from CEO Arto Vainio
  
• Product News (1) - SSH Tectia Client/Server Solution 5.0.1 Released
  
• Product News (2) - SSH Tectia Server (M) 5.1.0 for IBM z/OS Released
  
• Tips & Tricks
  
• New Documents at SSH Resource Center
  
• Trade Shows & Events
  
• SSH Headlines
  
• Subscribing & Unsubscribing to Mailing Lists

* Seasons Greetings from CEO Arto Vainio
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The year 2005 marked the 10th anniversary of the Secure Shell technology and SSH Communications Security. In celebration, we launched SSH G3, the third-generation high-performance Secure Shell architecture, introduced enterprise-class Secure Shell for IBM mainframes, and released new products for secure, automated file transfers. These expansions are the results of years of close cooperation with many customers and partners. Without the continuous feedback loop and regular product roadmap reviews with you, this would not be possible.

With the next generation Secure Shell architecture and the new modular product structure, we will in 2006 be able to meet your secure communications needs even more effectively. The upcoming year will bring many new security innovations and enhancements for secure system administration, file transfer, and application connectivity. Keep us informed of your product requirements and feature requests also in the future!

We would like to thank you for your continuous support, and wish you a great holiday season and a happy new year!


* Product News (1) - SSH Tectia Client/Server Solution 5.0.1 Released
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The SSH Tectia client/server solution 5.0.1 maintenance update was released on December 12, 2005. The most notable changes are:

• The configuration GUI of SSH Tectia Server on Windows has been redesigned for improved usability.
  
• SSH Tectia Client for Windows now offers upload functionality for the user's public key.
  
• A fix is provided for a host-based authentication vulnerability in SSH Tectia Server 5.0.0. To determine whether the issue affects your environment, please see http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/article/694/.
  
• Itanium packages for HP-UX 11i are now available.
  
• Other assorted fixes and minor enhancements have been made.

For more details on the release, please read the release notes at
http://www.ssh.com/support/documentation/release_notes/.

If you have a valid 5.0.0 license file, you can get the update package from
http://www.ssh.com/support/downloads/. If you do not have a valid 5.0.0 license file, and you are not a customer with a support agreement, you can purchase the new product version from SSH Online Store at http://www.ssh.com/company/sales/.

*Important notice to our maintenance customers: As our maintenance customer, you are entitled to upgrade to the SSH Tectia client/server solution 5.0.1 from your existing product versions. You can download the new installation packages from SSH Customer Download Center at https://downloads.ssh.com. Please log in with your e-mail address. Your password has been provided to you earlier.

Please see http://www.ssh.com/products/ for more product information.



* Product News (2) - SSH Tectia Server (M) 5.1.0 for IBM z/OS Released
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The SSH Tectia Server (M) 5.1.0 product was released on December 16, 2005. This version contains the following new features and enhancements:

• SSH Tectia Server (M) client module supports MVS datasets natively. No staging is needed with SCP2 and SFTP2 mainframe clients. There is no file size limit for mainframe client initiated transfers.
  
• SSH Tectia Server (M) supports codeset conversions with the CONVXLAT type of translate tables.
  
• Line delimiter conversion can be done either on the server or on the client.
  
• Different types of file transfers can be pre-configured. Named profiles can be used. Also filenames matching certain regular expressions can be configured to use file transfer profiles. There is no need to use lengthy strings in file transfer commands. Profiles can be set at the server level and/or user level.
  
• New SFTP2 client commands such as `sget' (single get) and `sput' (single put) can be used to transfer one file. Both source and destination filenames can be specified in the command.
  
• SFTP GUI clients are supported for HFS files. Automatic codeset conversion will be provided for predefined file types.
  
• FIPS mode is supported with ICSF.
  
• The command SSH2 now displays also the currently used cipher set.

*Important notice to our maintenance customers: As our maintenance customer, you are entitled to upgrade to the SSH Tectia Server (M) 5.1.0 product from your existing product version. You can download the new installation packages from SSH Customer Download Center at https://downloads.ssh.com. Please log in with your e-mail address. Your password has been provided to you earlier.

Please see http://www.ssh.com/products/ for more product information.



* Tips & Tricks: Configuring required and allowed authentication
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In SSH Tectia Server 5.0, it is possible to define that some users must complete several authentication methods successfully to log in, while other users are allowed to log in when one of the allowed authentication methods is completed successfully.

For more information, please see our Knowledge Base article ID 22348,"How to configure authentication methods in SSH Tectia Server".

Knowledge Base articles for SSH Tectia products are available at our support site http://support.ssh.com. From the main menu, select 'Knowledge Base', and then type in the article ID number.



* New Documents Available at SSH Resource Center
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**White Paper: Protecting Cardholder Data in Transit with SSH Tectia
http://www.ssh.com/campaign/pci/newsletter.html

**White Paper: Replacing FTP and Telnet in Cross-Platform Networks
http://www.ssh.com/campaign/ftpwp/newsletter.html



* Trade Shows & Events
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Upcoming events:

• Florida, USA: InfoSec World, April 3 - 5

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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December 13, 2005
SSH to Present at the National Conference on M-Health and EOE
http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/article/691/

November 28, 2005
SSH Tectia Introduces Seamless OpenSSH Compatibility
http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/article/684/


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