TunnelMate Secure Shell & SSL Security

TunnelMate seamlessly integrates Secure Shell communications with products such as Powerlan's X Server product, WebTerm X™ and Powerlan's Terminal Emulator, WebTerm™. TunnelMate has fundamental differences from other Secure Shell clients because of its seamlessness.  The primary design goal of TunnelMate is to provide "full-service" Secure Shell communications without requiring users to run a separate shell application, as is necessary in other security solutions.  TunnelMate may also be run as a stand-alone product,  providing a Secure Shell console.

When used in conjunction with WebTerm X Version 4.0, TunnelMate supplies all of the necessary Secure Shell  services WebTerm X requires. TunnelMate is automatically started when WebTerm X launches an X application configured with the Secure Shell option, and automatically stops running when WebTerm X quits.  The underlying complexities of Secure Shell and the tunneling of X client connections remain transparent to the WebTerm X user. TunnelMate also provides secure terminal access to a variety of other environments. Virtually any host - whether or not it has built-in support for the Secure Shell SSH protocol - is reachable using a TunnelMate-secured terminal session. If your goal is simply to make a secure terminal connection to a Unix host, then TunnelMate will create a console session in a Windows Telnet window.

When TunnelMate is paired with WebTerm Version 2.0, many other hosts may also be accessible.  WebTerm and TunnelMate together make Secure Shell "tunneling" easy and seamless.  Hosts on which direct Secure Shell access isn't possible (including IBM Mainframes, Midranges, etc.), are reachable using a mechanism where a secure tunnel is established between your PC and a Secure Shell-capable host, and the terminal session is essentially forwarded to any type of host that allows standard TN3270, TN5250 or VTxxx Telnet connections. Thanks to its unique "open" URL-driven design, virtually any other product that uses TCP/IP can seamlessly integrate with TunnelMate to use SSH protocol-based "tunnels" for high-grade security.