Telnet vs. Ssh

Telnetnoun

(computing) A network protocol that enables one computer to communicate with another via the Internet; the program that acts as the client in this situation

Telnetverb

To use such a program to make such a connection

Telnet

Telnet is an application protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control information in an 8-bit byte oriented data connection over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

Sshproper noun

A program and protocol for securely logging in to and running programs on remote machines across a network, with encryption to protect the transferred information and authentication to ensure that the remote machine is the one desired.

Sshverb

To use ssh to connect to a remote computer.