PuTTY Utility: A Beginner’s Guide to SSH and Telnet

PuTTY is a terminal emulator. The client part supports the protocols:

• SSH
• Telnet
• rlogin
• TCP crude

This is Free Software released under the MIT license. Its main features are:

• Retains the settings of the hosts and their preferences for future use.
• Control the encryption key and the version of the SSH protocol.
• It includes an SFTP client command line called psftp.
• It includes an SCP client command line called pscp.
• Allows control of the port translation (port forwarding) on ​​SSH dynamic local and remote.
• Supports IPv6.
• Supports encryption 3DES, AES, Arcfour, Blowfish, DES.
• Supports public key authentication.
• Supports Telnet, SSH, and rlogin, and RS-232.
• There is a command line version called Plink.
• No installation is necessary; simply run the downloaded executable to use.

PuTTY does not generate a backup file for the parameters. These are stored in the register at the hive:

“HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ SimonTatham \ PuTTY \ Sessions”