Overview
PuTTY uses binary files to perform various functions, which are described below.
Putty files
You can visit this site to download the following binary files.
- PuTTY (putty.exe)
- the SSH client itself.
- PSCP (pscp.exe)
- an SCP client (i.e., command-line secure file copy).
- PSFTP (psftp.exe)
- an SFTP client (i.e., general file transfer sessions much like FTP).
- PuTTYtel (puttytel.exe)
- a Telnet-only client.
- Plink (plink.exe)
- a command-line interface for the PuTTY back ends.
- Pageant (pageant.exe)
- an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP, and Plink. It holds your private keys in memory, already decoded, so that you can use them often without needing to type a passphrase.
- PuTTYgen (puttygen.exe)
- an RSA and DSA key-generation utility.