PuTTY
Developer: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
- Reviews
- 5 / 1
- Downloads
- 47,264
Downloads
Downloads are available on PuTTY’s official website.
PuTTY at a glance
- What it is
- An implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix, with an xterm terminal emulator
- Price
- Free
- Runs on
- Windows
- Official website
- chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
- Alternative
- KiTTY
Description
PuTTY is an implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is free.
It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham. The executables and source code are distributed under the MIT licence. The PuTTY team also publishes its Windows installers as a free download in the Microsoft Store.
PuTTY Features
- PuTTY itself, the SSH and Telnet client
- PuTTYtel, a Telnet-only client
- PSCP, a command-line SCP client for secure file copy
- PSFTP, an SFTP client for general file transfer sessions much like FTP
- Plink, a command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends
- Pageant, an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP, PSFTP and Plink
- PuTTYgen, an RSA and DSA key generation utility
