Setting Up SSH clients on Windows Mobile Devices
How to restart a computer or to perform other actions in a secure way being a thousand miles away from it? The answer to this question is SSH protocol.
SSH (Secure Shell) represents a network protocol that is used for the remote control and data exchange via secure channel between two networked devices. According to its functionality SSH is similar to Telnet and other insecure remote shells (that send information in plain text, i.e. leaving it open for the interception), but in comparison with them it encrypts all the information including the passwords.
Secure Shell uses the client-server model.
By default SSH server listens on the standard TCP port 22.
An SSH client represents a program used to establish the remote connections.
There are SSH servers and SSH clients for almost all the modern platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Java, Solaris, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile and even Palm OS.
So let’s take a closer look at the SSH clients used on Windows Mobile Devices.
Despite the fact that there are a lot of them, we will describe just a couple because their features do not vary so significantly.
PocketPuTTY
PocketPuTTY represents a free, open source SSH client for Pocket PC. Despite the fact that it’s absolutely free, it has all the features you need: