I use putty to ssh to a Linux machine to maintain a tunnel for a proxy server. The ssh connection is sometimes quite unreliable and drops, this is likely due to a network beyond my control. Is there ...

PuTTY can do a lot more than allow you to log into Linux from another system. It also allows you to tailor your window in several ways. PuTTY is a great tool for connecting between systems of ...

Okay, so I got myself a webhost recently and enabled SSH/shell access to my server there. All is good and dandy, except after reading lots here on Ars I've gotten myself pretty paranoid about security ...

Once upon a time the thought of a firewalled, cordoned, and censored web was enough to send chills up the spine of any internet user. As the years have passed, however, our sentiment has softened. A ...

The Secure Shell — SSH — allows you to send secure, encrypted, communications between computers that is nearly impossible to crack. Here's how to use it in macOS. Before personal computers, people ...