Proposed WG: SSH, Secure Shell (SECSH)

["Jeffrey I. Schiller" <[e-mail]>]

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Proposed Working Group:

SSH, Secure Shell, Working Group (SECSH)

Chair
  Perry E. Metzger <[e-mail]>

Area Director (Security):
  Jeffrey I. Schiller <[e-mail]>

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Charter
  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
  - provides strong security against cryptanalysis and protocol attacks,
  - can work reasonably well without a global key management or
    certificate infrastructure,
  - can utilize existing certificate infrastructures (e.g., DNSSEC, SPKI,
    X.509) when available,
  - can be made easy to deploy and take into use,
  - requires minimum or no manual interaction from users,
  - 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.
Milestones
  Dec 1996      Meets as informal BOF at San Jose IETF
  Feb 1997      Publish SSH-2.0 protocol as internet-draft
  Apr 1997      WG meets at Memphis: decide on transport layer protocol
  Jul 1997      WG meets at Munich: finalize upper level protocols
  Sep 1997      Submit protocols as proposed standard
  Dec 1997      WG meets

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