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OpenSSL vs OpenSSH: What are the differences?
OpenSSL: Full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security and Secure Sockets Layer protocols. It is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It is also a general-purpose cryptography library; OpenSSH: Free suite of tools that help secure your network connections. It is the premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol. It encrypts all traffic to eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. In addition, OpenSSH provides a large suite of secure tunneling capabilities, several authentication methods, and sophisticated configuration options.
OpenSSL and OpenSSH belong to "Security" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by OpenSSL are:
- Robust
- Commercial-grade
- Transport Layer Security
On the other hand, OpenSSH provides the following key features:
- Free SSH protocol suite
- Encryption for network services
- Strong cryptography
According to the StackShare community, OpenSSL has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4001 company stacks & 46 developers stacks; compared to OpenSSH, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.
