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# Security

- January 4, 2015
- in Security
- 13 min read

## Secure Secure Shell

> **Originally published on 1/4/2015 by [stribika](https://github.com/stribika) at: > [https://blog.stribik.technology/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html](https://blog.stribik.technology/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html)** > > Mirrored to preserve information. Minor changes have been made, and this is noted where applicable. Also see: >
> > 📝 **_NOTE:_** Despite this article's age, we've yet to come across a better source of information with regard to SSH configuration.

- Skip to the good part.

You may have heard that the NSA can decrypt SSH at least some of the time. If you have not, then read the latest batch of Snowden documents now. All of it. This post will still be here when you finish. My goal with this post here is to make NSA analysts sad.

TL;DR: Scan this post for fixed width fonts, these will be the config file snippets and commands you have to use.

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