On 04/08/2014 11:08 PM, Chris Hill wrote: > SSH and SSL/TLS are simply different protocols (doh). They may share some > similar underlying crypto implementations, but as of their respective RFCs, > they are just different protocols. The TLS Heartbeat TLS extension would > not apply to SSH.
The above is correct.
> SSH "may" have its own way to keep alive, but that would
> be a different implementation altogether.
SSH does indeed have its own keepalive. Search for ServerAlive in
ssh_config(5) and ClientAlive in sshd_config(5) if you want details. It
is an entirely different mechanism from (D)TLS heartbeat.
hope this helps,
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