RFC 4253: The Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol

The Secure Shell (SSH) is a protocol for secure remote login and other secure network services over an insecure network. This document describes the SSH…

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Outgoing relationships (20 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 3629: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
Normative reference — RFC 2104: HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
Normative reference — RFC 1321: The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
Normative reference — RFC 2434: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 2409: The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
Normative reference — RFC 3447: Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.1
Normative reference — RFC 4252: The Secure Shell (SSH) Authentication Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 4251: The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 1951: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3
Normative reference — RFC 2440: OpenPGP Message Format
Normative reference — RFC 3526: More Modular Exponential (MODP) Diffie-Hellman groups for Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
Normative reference — RFC 3066: Tags for the Identification of Languages
Normative reference — RFC 4250: The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Assigned Numbers
Normative reference — RFC 1950: ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3
Normative reference — RFC 4254: The Secure Shell (SSH) Connection Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 2144: The CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 1661: The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
Informative reference — RFC 2412: The OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 894: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over Ethernet Networks

Incoming relationships (33 related RFCs)

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 8268: More Modular Exponentiation (MODP) Diffie-Hellman (DH) Key Exchange (KEX) Groups for Secure Shell (SSH)
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 8308: Extension Negotiation in the Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 9142: Key Exchange (KEX) Method Updates and Recommendations for Secure Shell (SSH)
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 6668: SHA-2 Data Integrity Verification for the Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 8332: Use of RSA Keys with SHA-256 and SHA-512 in the Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 8709: Ed25519 and Ed448 Public Key Algorithms for the Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol
Updated by — RFC 8758: Deprecating RC4 in Secure Shell (SSH)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4252: The Secure Shell (SSH) Authentication Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5592: Secure Shell Transport Model for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4254: The Secure Shell (SSH) Connection Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7317: A YANG Data Model for System Management
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9640: YANG Data Types and Groupings for Cryptography
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4462: Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) Authentication and Key Exchange for the Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9644: YANG Groupings for SSH Clients and SSH Servers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4716: The Secure Shell (SSH) Public Key File Format
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8071: NETCONF Call Home and RESTCONF Call Home
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8731: Secure Shell (SSH) Key Exchange Method Using Curve25519 and Curve448
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4819: Secure Shell Public Key Subsystem
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4432: RSA Key Exchange for the Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5647: AES Galois Counter Mode for the Secure Shell Transport Layer Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6594: Use of the SHA-256 Algorithm with RSA, Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA), and Elliptic Curve DSA (ECDSA) in SSHFP Resource Records
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9941: Secure Shell (SSH) Key Exchange Method Using Hybrid Streamlined NTRU Prime sntrup761 and X25519 with SHA-512: sntrup761x25519-sha512
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6239: Suite B Cryptographic Suites for Secure Shell (SSH)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7076: P6R's Secure Shell Public Key Subsystem
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7869: The "vnc" URI Scheme
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6518: Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols (KARP) Design Guidelines
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5114: Additional Diffie-Hellman Groups for Use with IETF Standards
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8922: A Survey of the Interaction between Security Protocols and Transport Services
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9262: Tree Engineering for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER-TE)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9907: Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of Documents Containing YANG Data Models
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6872: The Common Log Format (CLF) for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): Framework and Information Model
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6476: Using Message Authentication Code (MAC) Encryption in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7682: Considerations for Internet Routing Registries (IRRs) and Routing Policy Configuration