SSH vs SSL

SSH1
Uses RSA algorithm which is patented until Sept 2000. Free and proven by community use.

SSH2
Is an improve version of SSH1
More restricted license than SSH1 : Free for non-commercial use only

SSL uses certificates, the certificates depend on someone certifying someone else and so on back to a central certification agency. This seems like a foobar scheme as most people just sign their own certificates. Certificates have time-outs and a heap of complexity that no one uses nor understands, the certification agencies just use it as an excuse to print money.

ssh uses the host key which it will save in a local file the first time you connect to a host and will complain in a major way if it ever sees that host key change. It doesn't check for integrity of the host but does check for consistency

Really depends on what you are trying to achieve , what services you are going to provide and whether the client used support the method used. Although I favor ssh2.

For example... public http services, I can use both ssh or ssl, but I will probably use ssl as most user will have a difficult time setting ssh tunnelling. However if it was a wan server and most user are technical savvy, then I would probably use ssh.

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