Re: Bothersome public key SCP implementations..

From: Jon Niehof (jniehof_at_bu.edu)
Date: 05/06/05

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    Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 12:52:01 -0400 (EDT)
To: secureshell@securityfocus.com

    theta@netwalk.com said:
    > The free, open-source
    > implementations that I have run across (FileZilla, WinSCP) seem to use the
    > same PuTTY codebase, which doesn't have native support for public key
    > exchange, and relies on a secondary PuTTY utility (pageant) for the
    > exchange of keys.

    When last I used PuTTY regularly, pageant was only required for persistent
    storage of unlocked keys. PuTTY itself allowed you to associate a key with
    a saved connection configuration, and plink allowed specification of a
    keyfile on the command line (-i option?).

    See:
    http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter8.html
    in particular the links at the bottom.

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