PuTTY 0.62 Released - Prevents passwords from being retained in memory.

rufibarbatus 14 years ago |

The security issue itself is described in [1]. Also worth note (at least for me, not used to reading PuTTY's release notes and issue pages) is their class/difficulty/priority breakdown of the issue. I had never seen that pattern before.

The original link also points incidentally to a nice, recently updated survey of cryptography laws around the world. [2]

[1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/p...

[2] http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/

cstuder 14 years ago | |

What are tuits and why are they fun?

biot 14 years ago | | |

Tuits come in all shapes and sizes, but round ones are particular prized. It's amazing the amount of work you can accomplish once you get a round tuit.

cstuder 14 years ago | | |

I see now. (I had been afraid that my Google-Fu had left me, but apparently only my english skills were lacking.)

ryanbraganza 14 years ago | | |

For anyone else who thinks their english skills lacking, make sure you read the gp's post aloud

skeletonjelly 14 years ago |

This seems like a huge bug fix. What is the likely hood that the memory will be read by malware in previous versions? As in, does the malware process need administrative privileges to read the other processes memory?

ak217 14 years ago |

I prefer using mintty with cygwin. This hole is absent from there since you'd be using openssh to manage logins.

kaerast 14 years ago | |

This also gives rsync, scp and all the other benefits of commandline ssh. Mintty was enough for me to be able to put off installing Debian for another month.

RexRollman 14 years ago |

I love Putty! It is one of my favorite Windows programs.