(PR excerpt) — SSH Communications Security today announced the extension of its encryption software toolkit for use in embedded systems, including network infrastructure devices such as routers, switches, and network appliances.

The SSH Secure Shell Toolkit 4.0 is optimized for embedded systems, enabling developers to quickly and efficiently incorporate SSH Secure Shell technology into existing remotely managed devices. The toolkit is designed for constrained environments where memory space and CPU cycles are limited. Runtime memory usage has been minimized in order to enable integration into existing designs without hardware or software re-engineering.

SSH Secure Shell Toolkit 4.0 protects management access by encrypting both the login credentials and the sessions themselves. The authentication phase uses DSA and Diffie-Hellman algorithms and the session itself is protected using one of one of four alternative ciphers (AES, 3DES, DES, Twofish, or Blowfish) together with SHA-1 and MD5 hash algorithms.

The SSH Secure Shell Toolkit now includes native support for MontaVista Linux and Wind River VxWorks.

About SSH Secure Shell

Invented in 1995 by Tatu Ylonen, Secure Shell is a program to log into another computer over the Internet. Secure Shell secures the connection over the Internet by encrypting passwords and other data. Once launched, it transparently provides strong authentication and secure communications over insecure networks. Benefits of the Secure Shell technology include ease-of-use, strong security and flexibility. With several million users in over 80 countries, it is the de-facto standard for remote logins, and increasingly many organizations are completely prohibiting any other form of access to their networks from the public Internet.

 
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