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SSH inventor warns that IT security's getting worse

posted onJuly 27, 2012
by l33tdawg

Tatu Ylonen, the fellow who gave the world SSH encryption, says that IT security is shot to hell.

Ylonen invented SSH encryption as an open protocol in the 1990s. This was controversial at the time because the US was trying to force vendors to install a key-escrow system in every product so it could snuffle encrypted data with some ease.