Telnet vs. SSH — What's the Difference?

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).

Synonym of shush

Also Telnet An internet communications protocol that enables a computer to function as a terminal working from a remote computer.

To use ssh to connect to a remote computer.

A program that implements this protocol.

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.

To access an account over the internet using the telnet protocol

(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

To use such a program to make such a connection