How to install and use SSH1 and SSH2

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We no longer recommend using the non-commercial client & server from SSH Communications Security, Inc. We still have a cached copy of the Windows client for those people who choose to install it, but we very much recommend against it. It has not been updated since December 2003, so it is very likely to have vulnerabilities in it that have not been corrected. In addition to our locally cached copy, SSH Communications still has a copy of it available(for now) at their ftp site.

We also recommend against using QVT Term. For whatever reason, QPC Inc. is no longer in the software business and they seem to have completely orphaned QVT Term: it has not been updated for years. We therefore no longer provide or support QVT Term for download from this page.

For linux and other unix systems, you should use the SSH solution that comes bundled with your operating system, typically OpenSSH.

OpenSource applications that we've tested and which seem to work well: FileZilla, and PuTTY.

• Download PuTTY, a free windows telnet/SSH/scp application. (v0.58)
  
  This suite of applications has fairly good terminal emulation, it has a Key Agent/Proxy program similar to the one available in the Unix SSH distributions, and all configurable options are accessible via predefined sessions. It also has good command-line support so that you can use scp/ssh commands from .BAT files.
  
  Unlike previous versions of this application, you can now simply download the installer(typically listed under the title line "A Windows installer for everything except PuTTYtel"), run that installer, and PuTTY will be fully installed once it's done. If you were using a previous version that required manual installation, be aware that the new installer may put the application in a different place from where you were keeping it previously, so any .BAT scripts using scp/etc will probably need to be updated.
  
  Then I strongly suggest you read the documentation. Or if you don't believe in reading documentation, you can just run putty, fiddle around with it, and hope for the best.



• The one thing that PuTTY lacks is a drag-and-drop file copy GUI, but that functionality is provided quite nicely by the FileZilla application. Like PuTTY, this application comes as a fairly easy-to-use installer. I have cached a copy of the windows installer for FileZilla 2.2.30a here.