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Date:	2018-07-15 07:03:03
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Connecting to a remote PostgreSQL server: Port Forwarding / SSH Tunneling

The well known SSH (Secure SHell) protocol is very frequently adopted by system administrators for establishing safe connections to remote servers.
SSH automatically encrypts all the traffic between the local PC and the remote server by using strong cryptograhic ciphers, thus allowing for very secure connections over the intrinsically insecure Internet.

You can use SSH also for establishing safe connections to remote PostgreSQL servers, but this requires to activate some special SSH feature known as port forwarding aka SSH tunneling.

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