PuTTY 0.62 Released - Prevents passwords from being retained in memory.(chiark.greenend.org.uk)

41 pointsby Refringehá 15 anos9 comments

chiark.greenend.org.uk

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

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

4 comments

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/

cstuderhá 15 anos

What are tuits and why are they fun?

biothá 15 anos

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.

cstuderhá 15 anos

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

ryanbraganzahá 15 anos

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

skeletonjellyhá 15 anos

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?

ak217há 15 anos

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

kaerasthá 15 anos

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.

RexRollmanhá 15 anos

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