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authorIngela Anderton Andin <[email protected]>2015-04-24 12:01:02 +0200
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<title>Introduction</title>
<prepared>OTP team</prepared>
+ <responsible></responsible>
+ <docno></docno>
+ <approved></approved>
+ <checked></checked>
+ <date></date>
+ <rev></rev>
<file>introduction.xml</file>
</header>
-
+ <p>SSH is a protocol for secure remote logon and
+ other secure network services over an insecure network.</p>
<section>
- <title>Purpose</title>
+ <title>Scope and Purpose</title>
- <p>Secure Shell (SSH) is a protocol for secure remote login and
- other secure network services over an insecure network. SSH
- provides a single, full-duplex, byte-oriented connection between
+ <p>SSH provides a single, full-duplex, and byte-oriented connection between
client and server. The protocol also provides privacy, integrity,
- server authentication and man-in-the-middle protection.</p>
-
- <p>The Erlang SSH application is an implementation of the SSH
- protocol in Erlang which offers API functions to write customized
- SSH clients and servers as well as making the Erlang shell
- available via SSH. Also included in the SSH application are an
- SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) client <seealso
- marker="ssh_sftp">ssh_sftp</seealso> and server <seealso
- marker="ssh_sftp">ssh_sftpd</seealso>.</p>
+ server authentication, and man-in-the-middle protection.</p>
+
+ <p>The <c>ssh</c> application is an implementation of the SSH Transport, Connection and Authentication
+ Layer Protocols in Erlang. It provides the following:</p>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>API functions to write customized SSH clients and servers applications</item>
+ <item>The Erlang shell available over SSH</item>
+ <item>An SFTP client (<seealso marker="ssh_sftp">ssh_sftp</seealso>)
+ and server (<seealso marker="ssh_sftp">ssh_sftpd</seealso>)</item>
+ </list>
</section>
<section>
<title>Prerequisites</title>
- <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the concepts of <seealso marker="doc/design_principles:des_princ">OTP</seealso>
- and has a basic understanding of <url href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography">public keys</url>.</p>
+ <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language,
+ concepts of <em>OTP</em>, and has a basic understanding of <em>public keys</em>.</p>
+ </section>
+
+<section>
+ <title>SSH Protocol Overview</title>
+
+ <p>Conceptually, the SSH protocol can be partitioned into four
+ layers:</p>
+
+ <image file="SSH_protocols.png">
+ <icaption>SSH Protocol Architecture</icaption>
+ </image>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Transport Protocol</title>
+
+ <p>The SSH Transport Protocol is a secure, low-level transport.
+ It provides strong encryption, cryptographic host
+ authentication, and integrity protection. A minimum of
+ Message Authentication Code (MAC) and encryption
+ algorithms are supported. For details, see the
+ <seealso marker="ssh">ssh(3)</seealso> manual page in <c>ssh</c>.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Authentication Protocol</title>
+
+ <p>The SSH Authentication Protocol is a general-purpose user
+ authentication protocol run over the SSH Transport Layer
+ Protocol. The <c>ssh</c> application supports user authentication as follows:
+ </p>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>
+ Using public key technology. RSA and DSA, X509-certificates
+ are not supported.
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
+ This is suitable for interactive authentication methods
+ that do not need any special software support on the client side.
+ Instead, all authentication data is entered from the keyboard.
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ Using a pure password-based authentication scheme.
+ Here, the plain text password is encrypted before sent
+ over the network.
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ <p>Several configuration options for
+ authentication handling are available in
+ <seealso marker="ssh#connect-3">ssh:connect/[3,4]</seealso>
+ and <seealso marker="ssh#daemon-2">ssh:daemon/[2,3]</seealso>.</p>
+ <p>
+ The public key handling can be customized by implementing
+ the following behaviours from <c>ssh</c>:</p>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>Module
+ <seealso marker="ssh_client_key_api">ssh_client_key_api</seealso>.
+ </item>
+ <item>Module
+ <seealso marker="ssh_server_key_api">ssh_server_key_api</seealso>.
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Connection Protocol</title>
+
+ <p>The SSH Connection Protocol provides application-support
+ services over the transport pipe, for example, channel multiplexing,
+ flow control, remote program execution, signal propagation, and
+ connection forwarding. Functions for handling the SSH
+ Connection Protocol can be found in the module <seealso
+ marker="ssh_connection">ssh_connection</seealso> in <c>ssh</c>.
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Channels</title>
+
+ <p>All terminal sessions, forwarded connections, and so on, are
+ channels. Multiple channels are multiplexed into a single
+ connection. All channels are flow-controlled. This means that no
+ data is sent to a channel peer until a message is received to
+ indicate that window space is available.
+ The <em>initial window size</em> specifies how many bytes of channel
+ data that can be sent to the channel peer without adjusting the
+ window. Typically, an SSH client opens a channel, sends data (commands),
+ receives data (control information), and then closes the channel.
+ The <seealso marker="ssh_channel">ssh_channel</seealso> behaviour
+ handles generic parts of SSH channel management. This makes it easy
+ to write your own SSH client/server processes that use flow-control
+ and thus opens for more focus on the application logic.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>Channels come in the following three flavors:</p>
+
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item><em>Subsystem</em> - Named services that can be run as
+ part of an SSH server, such as SFTP <seealso
+ marker="ssh_sftpd">(ssh_sftpd)</seealso>, that is built into the
+ SSH daemon (server) by default, but it can be disabled. The Erlang <c>ssh</c>
+ daemon can be configured to run any Erlang-
+ implemented SSH subsystem.
+ </item>
+ <item><em>Shell</em> - Interactive shell. By default the
+ Erlang daemon runs the Erlang shell. The shell can be customized by
+ providing your own read-eval-print loop. You can also provide your
+ own Command-Line Interface (CLI) implementation,
+ but that is much more work.
+ </item>
+ <item><em>Exec</em> - One-time remote execution of commands. See function
+ <seealso marker="ssh_connection#exec-4">ssh_connection:exec/4</seealso>
+ for more information.</item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+
</section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Where to Find More Information</title>
+ <p>
+ For detailed information about the SSH protocol, refer to the
+ following Request for Comments(RFCs):
+ </p>
+
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item><url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4250.txt">RFC 4250</url> -
+ Protocol Assigned Numbers</item>
+ <item><url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4251.txt">RFC 4251</url> -
+ Protocol Architecture</item>
+ <item><url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4252.txt">RFC 4252</url> -
+ Authentication Protocol</item>
+ <item><url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4253.txt">RFC 4253</url> -
+ Transport Layer Protocol</item>
+ <item><url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4254.txt">RFC 4254</url> -
+ Connection Protocol</item>
+ <item><url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4255.txt">RFC 4255</url> -
+ Key Fingerprints</item>
+ <item><url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4344.txt">RFC 4344</url> -
+ Transport Layer Encryption Modes</item>
+ <item><url href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4716.txt">RFC 4716</url> -
+ Public Key File Format</item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
</chapter>