@misc{rfc4256, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 4256, howpublished = {RFC 4256}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC4256}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4256}, author = {Martin Forssen and Frank Cusack}, title = {{Generic Message Exchange Authentication for the Secure Shell Protocol (SSH)}}, pagetotal = 12, year = 2006, month = jan, abstract = {The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a protocol for secure remote login and other secure network services over an insecure network. This document describes a general purpose authentication method for the SSH protocol, suitable for interactive authentications where the authentication data should be entered via a keyboard (or equivalent alphanumeric input device). The major goal of this method is to allow the SSH client to support a whole class of authentication mechanism(s) without knowing the specifics of the actual authentication mechanism(s). {[}STANDARDS-TRACK{]}}, }