PUTTY

Name

PUTTY

Description

PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. PuTTY is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers. 

Functions

PuTTY supports many variations on the secure remote terminal, and provides user control over the SSH encryption key and protocol version, alternate ciphers such as AES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, DES, and Public-key authentication. PuTTY uses own format of key files – PPK (protected by Message Authentication Code). PuTTY supports SSO through GSSAPI, including user provided GSSAPI DLLs. It also can emulate control sequences from xterm, VT220, VT102 or ECMA-48 terminal emulation, and allows local, remote, or dynamic port forwarding with SSH (including X11 forwarding). The network communication layer supports IPv6, and the SSH protocol supports the zlib@openssh.com delayed compression scheme. It can also be used with local serial port connections.

PuTTY comes bundled with command-line SCP and SFTP clients, called "pscp" and "psftp" respectively, and plink, a command-line connection tool, used for non-interactive sessions.

PuTTY does not support session tabs directly, but many wrappers are available that do.

OS Supported

Windows 10

Apple MacOS

License Details

Free

Available to

Faculty/Staff/Students

Restrictions

Personal devices and university-owned devices

How to Get

For Students/Staff/Faculty: PuTTY is available via AppsAnywhere.smu.ca

Faculty only: For special requests, please contact EIT Helpdesk at helpdesk@smu.ca

Or install directly to Device by following this article

Website

For more information, visit https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

 

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Article ID: 557
Created
Fri 3/19/21 2:54 PM
Modified
Fri 7/15/22 12:44 PM