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

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/?release=0.62

by Refringe • 15 years ago

41 9 15 years ago

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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/

cstuder2• 15 years ago

What are tuits and why are they fun?

biot• 15 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.

RexRollman• 15 years ago

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

ak217• 15 years ago

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

kaerast• 15 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.

skeletonjelly• 15 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?

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

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