Using SSH? (no Doctorate in crypto)

I was really psyched about using Unix and currently am using Debian, but after just recently reading that all that ftping I've been doing is basically as insecure as anything I could do with Linux, so I found out about ssh and it being the standard for any sort of secure transactions.

So I read like 10 tutorials, and I still know absolutely nothing. This shit makes zero sense. Is there some sort of newbie tutorial respository, because I'm spending like 6 hours failing at doing the simplest shit.

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excuse me you cockstuffing faggot

All I needed to know how to do was "apt-fucking-get" ssh to set it up. Apparently the millitary hires people far stupider than the 22 year old kid running the electronics department at Target to run their encryption services

O I GET IT MAYBE U SPEAK NAVAJO   get over yourself you fucking republican