Secure Shell () Charter

NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 38th IETF Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. It may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.

Chair(s)

Perry Metzger <perry@piermont.com>

Security Area Director(s):

Jeffrey Schiller <jis@mit.edu>

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Description of Working Group

The goal of the working group is to update and standardize the popular SSH protocol. SSH provides support for secure remote login, secure file transfer, and secure TCP/IP and X11 forwardings. It can automatically encrypt, authenticate, and compress transmitted data. The working group will attempt to assure that the SSH protocol

o provides strong security against cryptanalysis and protocol attacks,

o can work reasonably well without a global key management or certificate infrastructure,

o can utilize existing certificate infrastructures (e.g., DNSSEC, SPKI, X.509) when available,

o can be made easy to deploy and take into use,

o requires minimum or no manual interaction from users,

o is reasonably clean and simple to implement.

The resulting protocol will operate over TCP/IP or other reliable but insecure transport. It is intended to be implemented at the application level.

Goals and Milestones

Feb 97: Submit Internet-Draft on SSH-2.0 protocol
Apr 97: Decide on Transport Layer protocol at Memphis IETF.
Aug 97: Finalize upper level protocols at Munich IETF.
Sep 97: Submit Internet-Drafts to IESG to consider for publication as RFCs.
Dec 97: Meet at DC IETF meeting.