The (uncomplicated) story of getting SSH port 22, from its author
February 16, 2024 —
Nico Cartron
Tatu Ylonen, SSH's author, has a fascinating story about how he managed to get port 22 for SSH.
In fact, it's an uncomplicated one, since back in 1995, things were a lot easier as the Internet was not exactly the size it is today.
All Tatu had to do was sending an email to IANA and ask for a port, preferably 22 (as it was in between FTP's 21 and Telnet's 23), and the day after he got an email from Joyce K. Reynolds (who co-authored RFCs for Telnet, FTP and POP) where she confirmed Tatu that he got assigned port 22 for SSH.
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