Preventing brute force attacks against ssh?

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Published on 2009-05-04T17:46:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 13:23 UTC
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What tool or technique do you use to prevent brute force attacks against your ssh port. I noticed in my Security logs, that I have millions of attempts to login as various users through ssh.

This is on a FreeBSD box, but I imagine it would be applicable anywhere.

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