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It always makes me sad to see that the PuTTY download page is served over unsecure HTTP.
At this point it's totally inexcusable. Just buy the SSL cert already, or get a free one from Let's Encrypt.
I've stopped using PuTTY and now use MinTTY with the Ubuntu subsystem and the regular old Ubuntu SSH client. Specifically this thing: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty It's real nice and even supports 24bit colour if you're into that.
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And obviously a network attacker would never think to modify the insecurely served downloads page to point to a different download URL.
This is a possibility. But downloads have been served out of "the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/" for years. Yes, it's owned by someone else and exploding turtles all the way down [1], but now that "the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/" is HTTPS, the checksums are properly authentic as attested by the same operator as the one who has supplied PuTTY downloads for years. I've mirrored the most important checksums here, another HTT…
Or maybe you're a very motivated attacker.
Putty used to be the go-to tool for Windows SSH, but nowadays I'm using Bitvise SSH client. It's worth a try.
On Windows 10, with Windows Subsystem for Linux installed, I don't find myself using Putty anymore.
Are you using an insider build or a different shell than Windows' cmd? I find myself using Putty to connect to a Linux subsystem ssh server just to get a decent terminal emulator with full colour support!
Release Notes: Security fix: an integer overflow bug in the agent forwarding code. See vuln-agent-fwd-overflow. Security fix: the Windows PuTTY binaries should no longer be vulnerable to hijacking by specially named DLLs in the same directory (on versions of Windows where they previously were). See vuln-indirect-dll-hijack. Windows PuTTY no longer sets a restrictive process ACL by default, because this turned out to…
This is the information I came to find. Thanks!
I've stopped using PuTTY and now use MinTTY with the Ubuntu subsystem and the regular old Ubuntu SSH client. Specifically this thing: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty It's real nice and even supports 24bit colour if you're into that.
Another option: SSH inside WSL in windows 10.
On Windows 10, with Windows Subsystem for Linux installed, I don't find myself using Putty anymore.
Are you using an insider build or a different shell than Windows' cmd? I find myself using Putty to connect to a Linux subsystem ssh server just to get a decent terminal emulator with full colour support!
https://conemu.github.io/ https://conemu.github.io/en/BashOnWindows.html
I wish they would finally implement file transfers via copy/paste mechanism inside an active terminal window. As far as I know this feature would be unique across platforms. If someone does know of an SSH terminal client that does this, please reply.
I wish they would finally implement file transfers via copy/paste mechanism inside an active terminal window. As far as I know this feature would be unique across platforms. If someone does know of an SSH terminal client that does this, please reply.
This page[1] says SecureCRT can do it, and I saw some things referencing that Konsole can too. I searched for 'drag and drop zmodem' to get started.