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PuTTY 0.68 has been released

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Re: PuTTY 0.68 has been released

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Post by sengork »

ianmcgowan wrote: post #71
sengork wrote: post #40

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.

Reminds me of the bad old days of kermit and x/y/zmodem. http://www.extraputty.com/features/xmodem.html looks like a throwback to those days, over an ssh session. I wonder what you have to run on the server side for it to work? Does uuencode or base64 work for you? I use it a lot to move stuff (aka my toolkit) to systems where I'm connected via citrix -> rdp -> ssh -> ssh. Amazingly, it works fine, though it can be s…

There is another throwback for me here when one of our clients had disabled Citrix file transfers and only allowed text based clipboard (due to imposed security policies).

So we had to:

  - zip a directory hierarchy or a single file uuencode

  - copy to shared clipboard

  - paste into a terminal on the other end using a here document

  - uudecode the output

  - checksum the source/destination copy for file integrity purposes
This worked on Windows too (using Notepad and saving the file as .uu for use with WinZip). Luckily file transfers were not a frequent use case.

Re: PuTTY 0.68 has been released

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Post by gfody »

xs wrote: post #46
JonRB wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the information I came to find. Thanks!

Why would such a small, simple program need to be 64 bit? Exactly what changes when moving puTTY from 32 bit to 64 bit? It now takes up more memory?

We are well beyond moving to 64bit on a needs-only basis. At this point it's about dropping legacy and future proofing. There's also no reason 64bit apps should have a larger memory footprint; the ISA and addressing modes are actually much tidier.

Re: PuTTY 0.68 has been released

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Post by ClayFerguson »

PuTTY has been a sort of industry standard for decades and they're still afraid to put a "Version 1.0" label on it!? Can that be right? I guess Google is still in the "beta" version of their little "Search Engine Thingy" too perhaps. Maybe somebody should invent negative or even "imaginary numbers" for versions, and then it would suffice for this shyness about integers. I don't know. We need Steve Jobs to come back and tell is what to do.

(I'm waiting for the ass-holes who will take exception with term "decades". Come on guys. let me have it. Don't i deserve a good HackerNews smacking?)

Re: PuTTY 0.68 has been released

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Post by JohnTHaller »

lupin_sansei wrote: post #75
JohnTHaller wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's bad if you use an insecure browser like Chrome. Chrome allows any website you visit to download DLLs directly to your Downloads directory without user interaction. Then, any installer you download and run will use the infected DLLs unless specifically keyed to look in system32 for them. Additionally, something can infect your PC and alter your PATH. Then PuTTY might pick up a fake Windows DLL from elsewhere on y…

Thankfully Chrome has fixed this issue. I just tried this and Chrome actually warns you about downloading DLLs and requires further user interaction to actually download DLL to the downloads folder: Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/MvRwZBi.png

All DLLs or just specific ones? I'd heard a while ago they were going to blacklist specific ones instead of just making it so a user has to purposely decide to download a file.

I'm surprised they finally did something since we've been warning people not to use Chrome because of this issue for years.

Re: PuTTY 0.68 has been released

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Post by mkj »

ulkesh wrote: post #66

Putty is great and has been for a very long time. Always glad to see it still in active development. Though, for Windows, once I found MobaXterm I never looked back. Of course on the Linux side nothing to me beats tmux or terminator.

And the SSH part of MobaXterm is based on PuTTY

Re: PuTTY 0.68 has been released

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Post by arca_vorago »

Putty always served me well when stuck on a windows boxen, so it's good to know it hasn't been forgotten.

Two things for those of you who use putty I think would be mosh (chromium if you have to, cygwin my preffered), and winscp.

Re: PuTTY 0.68 has been released

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Post by mytec »

Long time user of Putty, like many here. I liked this quote from their FAQ (A.3.3 What's the point of the Unix port? Unix has OpenSSH):

"There were development advantages as well; porting PuTTY to Unix was a valuable path-finding effort for other future ports, and also allowed us to use the excellent Linux tool Valgrind to help with debugging, which has already improved PuTTY's stability on all platforms."

Re: PuTTY 0.68 has been released

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Post by Keluri »

YSFEJ4SWJUVU6 wrote: post #73
caf wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't this "DLL hijacking" thing a bit overblown? The directory an application runs from on Windows has always been considered part of the security perimeter of the application. If you can drop a malicious DLL where putty.exe lives, can't you just drop a malicious putty.exe?

Can't say anything definitive about “overblown”, but I like the change. Windows security model is inadequate, but it's good to work around it anyway.

How is Window's security model inadequate?
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