Support for ssh – Allied Telesis AT-S63 User Manual

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Chapter 37: Secure Shell (SSH)

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Section IX: Management Security

Support for SSH

The AT-S63 implementation of the SSH protocol is compliant with the
SSH protocol versions 1.3, 1.5, and 2.0.

In addition, the following SSH options and features are supported:

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Inbound SSH connections (server mode) is supported.

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The following security algorithms are supported:

– 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES),

192-bit AES, and 256-bit AES

– Arcfour (RC4) security algorithm is supported.

– Triple-DES (3DES) encryption for SSH sessions is

supported.

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RSA public keys with lengths of 512 to 2048 bits are supported. Keys
are stored in a format compatible with other Secure Shell
implementations, and mechanisms are provided to copy keys to and
from the switch.

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Compression of SSH traffic.

The following SSH options and features are not supported:

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IDEA or Blowfish encryption

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Nonencrypted Secure Shell sessions

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Tunnelling of TCP/IP traffic

Note

Non-encrypted Secure Shell sessions serve no purpose.

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