ssh automatically encrypts and decrypts all incoming and outgoing traffic..this is called transparent encryption. "A key is a digital identity. It's a unique string of binary data that means, "This is me, honestly, I swear."" Your public key is: 024 35 11272721957877936880509167858732970485872567486703821636830\ 950099934876023218886571857276011133767701853088352661186539160906\ 9214986989240214507621864063548908730298546478215446737245984456708\ 9631066077107611074114663544313782992987840457273825436579285836220\ 2493395730648451296601594344979290457421809236729 "Verbose mode is your friend. " "Please take a deep breath and repeat after us: "ssh -v is my friend..." "ssh -v is my friend..." "ssh -v is my friend..." "