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Re: PuTTY SSH client security



On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 03:19:07AM -0600, Kitty Cat wrote:
>    I use PuTTY to connect to my Debian boxes.
> 
>    I was concerned about whether PuTTY is susceptible to the Heartbleed bug,
>    etc. as I noticed that the program has not had any updates in quite some
>    time.
> 
>    [1]http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
> 
>    Is this software still considered to be secure?

PuTTY is *not* based on OpenSSL[1], so it has never been susceptible to
the heartbleed bug.

[1]
https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.63/htmldoc/AppendixA.html#faq-misc

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