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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by icedchai on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:09AM (#15905628)
Was there a problem installing Putty?
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by asendra on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:17AM (#15905667)
Yes. Putty.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by icedchai on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:23AM (#15905701)
Strange. I never had a problem with it 10 years ago. Perhaps our expectations for a terminal have changed in that time.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by samfisher83 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:45AM (#15905853)
Putty works fine. You can even do x11 forwarding or socks proxing. If you have an x11 server running on your machine you can have a linux display.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by PascLeRasc on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:14AM (#15906660)
Putty's been being distributed over unsecured HTTP for years - I wouldn't be surprised if some companies' IT departments forbid it.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by ac29 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @12:27PM (#15907425)
The main page [0] and main download [1] are HTTPS. GPG signatures are provided as well.

[0] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.ht...

[1] https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/putty-64bit-...

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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by lostmsu on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:56PM (#15911670)
That probably changed just recently.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by icedchai on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:40PM (#15910954)
Downloading something over HTTPS doesn't magically make it secure.
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