PuTTY is a terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection.
The software was originally written for Windows but has been ported to other operating systems including Linux.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Sessions.
- Supports the following protocols: SSH, Serial, Telnet, Rlogin, SUPDUP, Raw, and bare ssh-connection.
- Control over the SSH encryption key and protocol version.
- Control the behavior of the terminal emulation.
- Control over port forwarding with SSH (local, remote or dynamic port forwarding), including built-in handling of X11 forwarding.
- Make raw TCP connections.
- Supports 3DES, AES, Arcfour, Blowfish, and DES.
- Public-key authentication support.
- Support for local serial port connections.
- Save log files of your PuTTY sessions, for debugging, analysis or future reference.
- Event log.
- Unicode support.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux and Windows.
Website: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
Support: Documentation, FAQ
Developer: Simon Tatham
License: MIT License
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