The Story of Getting SSH Port 22How SSH port became 22 The default SSH port is 22. It is not a coincidence. This is a story of how it got that port. When I (Tatu Ylonen first published this story in April 2017, it went viral and got about 120,000 readers in three days. The story of getting SSH port 22 I wrote the initial version of SSH (Secure Shell) in Spring 1995. It was a time when telnet and FTP were widely used. Anyway, I d
