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This is not yet used by anything, but the idea is that it'll be a graphic in the terminal window that can't be replicated by a server sending escape sequences, and hence can be used as a reliable indication that the text on a particular terminal line is generated by PuTTY itself and not passed through from the server. This will make it possible to detect a malicious server trying to mimic local prompts to trick you out of information that shouldn't be sent over the wire (such as private-key passphrases). The trust sigil I've picked is a small copy of the PuTTY icon, which is thematically nice (it can be read as if the PuTTY icon is the name of the speaker in a dialogue) and also convenient because we had that graphic available already on all platforms. (Though the contortions I had to go through to make the GTK 1 code draw it were quite annoying.) The trust sigil has the same dimensions as a CJK double-width character, i.e. it's 2 character cells wide by 1 high.
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'.