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There was a time, back when the USA was more vigorously against cryptography, when we toyed with the idea of having a version of PuTTY that outsourced its cryptographic primitives to the Microsoft optional encryption API, which would effectively create a tool that acted like PuTTY proper on a system with that API installed, but automatically degraded to being PuTTYtel on a system without, and meanwhile (so went the theory) it could be moved freely across national borders with crypto restrictions, because it didn't _contain_ any of the actual crypto. I don't recall that we ever got it working at all. And certainly the vestiges of it here and there in the current code are completely unworkable - they refer to an 'mscrypto.c' that doesn't even exist, and the ifdefs in the definitions of structures like RSAKey and MD5Context are not matched by any corresponding ifdefs in the code. So I ought to have got round to removing it long ago, in order to avoid misleading anyone. |
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| pageant.ico | ||
| pageant.mft | ||
| pageant.rc | ||
| pageants.ico | ||
| plink.rc | ||
| pscp.ico | ||
| pscp.rc | ||
| psftp.rc | ||
| putty.ico | ||
| putty.iss | ||
| putty.mft | ||
| putty.rc | ||
| puttycfg.ico | ||
| puttygen.ico | ||
| puttygen.mft | ||
| puttygen.rc | ||
| puttyins.ico | ||
| puttytel.rc | ||
| rcstuff.h | ||
| README-msi.txt | ||
| README.txt | ||
| sizetip.c | ||
| version.rc2 | ||
| website.url | ||
| win_res.h | ||
| win_res.rc2 | ||
| wincapi.c | ||
| wincapi.h | ||
| wincfg.c | ||
| wincons.c | ||
| winctrls.c | ||
| windefs.c | ||
| windlg.c | ||
| window.c | ||
| wingss.c | ||
| winhandl.c | ||
| winhelp.c | ||
| winhelp.h | ||
| winhsock.c | ||
| winjump.c | ||
| winmisc.c | ||
| winnet.c | ||
| winnoise.c | ||
| winnojmp.c | ||
| winnpc.c | ||
| winnps.c | ||
| winpgen.c | ||
| winpgnt.c | ||
| winpgntc.c | ||
| winplink.c | ||
| winprint.c | ||
| winproxy.c | ||
| winsecur.c | ||
| winsecur.h | ||
| winser.c | ||
| winsftp.c | ||
| winshare.c | ||
| winstore.c | ||
| winstuff.h | ||
| wintime.c | ||
| winucs.c | ||
| winutils.c | ||
| winx11.c | ||
PuTTY README
============
This is the README file for the PuTTY installer distribution. If
you're reading this, you've probably just run our installer and
installed PuTTY on your system.
What should I do next?
----------------------
If you want to use PuTTY to connect to other computers, or use PSFTP
to transfer files, you should just be able to run them from the
Start menu.
If you want to use the command-line-only file transfer utility PSCP,
you will probably want to put the PuTTY installation directory on
your PATH. On Windows 7 and similar versions, you can do this at
Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced system
settings > Environment Variables.
Some versions of Windows will refuse to run HTML Help files (.CHM)
if they are installed on a network drive. If you have installed
PuTTY on a network drive, you might want to check that the help file
works properly. If not, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054
for information on how to solve this problem.
What do I do if it doesn't work?
--------------------------------
The PuTTY home web site is
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Here you will find our list of known bugs and pending feature
requests. If your problem is not listed in there, or in the FAQ, or
in the manuals, read the Feedback page to find out how to report
bugs to us. PLEASE read the Feedback page carefully: it is there to
save you time as well as us. Do not send us one-line bug reports
telling us `it doesn't work'.