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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by denton-scratch on Sunday December 12, 2021 @02:01PM (#29532468)
It would be cool if someone would donate to him a domain. Downloading PuTTY involves relying on greenend.org.uk (which isn't obviously connected with PuTTY). You can check your download using the hashes provided on the site; but if the download has been messed with, then the hash is untrustworthy too.

https://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-saf...

Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by GoodbyeMrChips on Sunday December 12, 2021 @04:38PM (#29533887)
Would the lazy bastards who downvoted parent instead do something useful and post a sensible rely? (Rather then keep turning this place into another Redit).

Link and text from the Putty FAQ below.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#...

A.9.2 Would you like me to register you a nicer domain name?

No, thank you. Even if you can find one (most of them seem to have been registered already, by people who didn't ask whether we actually wanted it before they applied), we're happy with the PuTTY web site being exactly where it is. It's not hard to find (just type ‘putty’ into google.com and we're the first link returned), and we don't believe the administrative hassle of moving the site would be worth the benefit.

In addition, if we did want a custom domain name, we would want to run it ourselves, so we knew for certain that it would continue to point where we wanted it, and wouldn't suddenly change or do strange things. Having it registered for us by a third party who we don't even know is not the best way to achieve this.

Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by lstodd on Sunday December 12, 2021 @05:40PM (#29534425)
Hah, I once ran a PuTTY download mirror for the clients of an ISP I then worked at.

It was like 20 years ago. Even then it was obvious that they don't want any fancy domains, just that the work is done and putty.exe delivered where it's needed.