To maintain the security and integrity of the Rutgers network, connections and transmissions to host systems must be made in encrypted format.

Email (SMTP and SSL)

To use a desktop email program in conjunction with your andromeda or Pegasus account, you must set-up your email program to

• Provide authentication to your outgoing server (SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol)
• Use a secure connection to the system (SSL Secure Socket Layer)

SFTP

To upload or download files through an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program, you must use a secure program such as SFTP (Secure file Transfer Protocol)

SSH

To make interactive connections to Andromeda, Pegasus, or the campus web server, you must use a program with SSH (Secure Shell). Both graphical and command line versions of SSH are available.