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SSH was created in 1995 by Tatu Ylönen, a professor at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland. The inception of SSH was a direct response to a significant security breach at the university where a sniffer intercepted sensitive information and captured user credentials. This incident motivated Ylönen to develop a secure method of using cryptography within network environments. Shortly after its creation, he released the first open-source version of SSH. Although the original SSH became proprietary over time, independent developers continued the work by creating OpenSSH, which is widely utilized on Unix and Linux systems, and, since 2017, also on Windows. Today, SSH is implemented on more than half of all web servers globally.