What is the difference between SSH and SSL/TLS?

Lee Painter

SSH and SSL/TLS are not the same but they both provide similar services.

SSL/TLS: Is a public key cryptography protocol that is used to provide security and confidentiality to many network services. Examples of services that use SSL/TLS are FTP/S, NNTP, POP3, SMTP, IMAP and HTTP.

SSH: Is also a public key cryptography protocol that provides security and confidentiality but is designed around access remote computers by way of command line access (shell, call it secure telnet with more). SSH has extensions to provide secure file transfer and port forwarding.