Putty SSH and Telnet Client

Nov 21, 2010

Putty is a application which can act like a Telnet and SSH client for Windows and Unix platforms. The application is free and is open source. It works over the SSH, Telnet, rlogin protocols. It also works over a serial cable connection. Putty is a very small application; it’s a packaged executable and requires no installation. The file size is 444KB, its lightweight, runs fast and doesn’t take much system resources.

Features

  • Saving connection settings
  • Control over the SSH encryption key and protocol version.
  • Control over port forwarding with SSH
  • IPv6 support.
  • Supports 3DES, AES, Arcfour, Blowfish, DES.
  • Public-key authentication support.
  • Connections through the local serial port
  • Packaged exe requires no installation
  • Ctrl+Break now sends a serial break signal
  • Support for sending terminal modes in SSH
  • Port forwarding

Company: Written and maintained by Simon Tatham
Website: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/