You need to connect securely from your laptop on a public wireless network to a remote computer at your office. Which of these protocols is commonly used to create an encrypted communication link to another computer?
A) telnet
B) ping
C) ssh
D) netstat
E) My secret Dick Tracy decoder ring
The answer: C) ssh
The secure shell (ssh) protocol is commonly used to encrypt data when working at the command line of a computer.
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