SSH access to aq.org

This page provides secure access to accounts on aq.org using the SSH protocol, via the GPL'ed applet provided at http://javassh.org/. You can only use this page if you already have an aq.org account. I believe that most of the code is by Matthias L. Jungel and Marcus Meißner, and the SSH protocol implementation is by Cédric Gourio; apologies if I have any attributions wrong.

See below for SSH-related links.

I used to have a page with an applet that did basically the same thing this applet does called MindTerm, from Mindbright Technology in Sweden (although they've since changed their name). That applet was free-as-in-beer for noncommercial use, but stopped working recently, so I've replaced it with this one which is free-as-in-speech (meaning GPLed).

In order to use this applet, you need to be using a Java-capable web browser and have Java turned on. (Note: There have been some security bugs in the Java implementations of some browser versions, so you might not want to leave Java turned on all the time. In particular, versions of Netscape prior to 4.75 have security vulnerabilities.)

An alternative if you're on a Windows platform is the PuTTY application, an excellent SSH and telnet client by Simon Tatham. It also comes with pscp.exe, which allows you to copy files using the SSH protocol (which this applet doesn't let you do).

There are lots of other SSH implementations, and you can find pointers to some of them at www.ssh.org. Now that the RSAREF patent (on a particular encryption algorithm) is history, most of them are actually legal to use even in the US! :-)

Last modified 2002.11.14 by js.