Retirement of SSH Secure Shell, CRT, and AbsoluteFTP from distribution

Hello campus support providers for faculty, staff, or students using
SSH, telnet, and ftp clients for Windows:

The vendors supporting the versions of SSH Secure Shell, CRT, and
AbsoluteFTP available on Software Central have discontinued making bug
or security fixes for those software products. At this time those
products do not meet campus Minimum Security Standards and may
increasingly become potential targets for attacks.

IST will therefore end active distribution of SSH Secure Shell, CRT, and
AbsoluteFTP to the campus on October 1, 2007.

Students, faculty, and staff looking for an SSH2-based secure terminal
emulation or file transfer application for their own Windows computers
can use, in addition to several free and for-fee SSH2 security products,
the campus-licensed software HostExplorer (HE) 2008 with the
Connectivity Secure Shell (CSS) 2008 security add-on. Both of these
products are available via the Software Central distribution web site.

See also the following IST KB articles for more information about HE
2008 and CSS 2008:

   https://kb.berkeley.edu/kb1705 (HE)
   https://kb.berkeley.edu/kb1725 (CSS)
   https://kb.berkeley.edu/kb1185 (Securing X Window System)
   https://kb.berkeley.edu/kb1795 (Public Key Authentication)
   https://kb.berkeley.edu/kb1266 (Securing network traffic...)

For more information about the campus Minimum Security Standards for
Networked Devices, see:

   http://security.berkeley.edu/MinStds/ (MSS)

Please write to sns_at_berkeley.edu for questions about this notice, or you
can contact me directly.

Thanks,

--Karl

Karl Grose
IST-SNS

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Received on Fri Aug 31 2007 - 16:26:56 PDT