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Putty: a free tool, simple and powerful functions for Telnet

August 5th, 2011 2 comments

PuTTY allows you to connect to a remote host and start a session control. The latest version has enhanced support to SSH-2.

A communication tool is interesting for Telnet sessions PuTTY. It is a software developed by Simon Tatham programmer that performs all the functions of Telnet and SSH client also integrates a. Just recently has been updated to version 0.61, After a break of more than 4 years.

It is really simple: just run PuTTY on the Windows machine / Unix, open a window to connect to the remote system, enter your user name and password, and then it works exactly as you would on the console of the remote system.

In the latest version of PuTTY has been added support for authentication using GSSAPI SSH-2 and the files containing the private keys, encrypted with the AES algorithm, portable OpenSSH.

Recall that SSH is a network protocol allows to establish an encrypted remote session by using the command line interface connecting to another network host. Through the use of SSH, becomes possible to administer a machine remotely without any data in transit can be intercepted by an attacker.

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