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I don't think so. Thus everyone looking for a free client. The PuTTY client being popular. The offical is at a ~sgtatham/putty/ web address which seems very old school.

Though recently some not official versions had malware installed if I'm remembering. I'm wondering if this is a response to that.

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Old school and served over HTTP, making it not that hard for someone to MITM you and give you a backdoored client when you download it.

Don't worry though, the page has checksums you can validate your download against! Except those are also served over HTTP.

Yes, sgtatham should move to a secure location like GitHub. Homakov is perhaps willing to guide the transition.

Maybe somebody could automate the process, provide a service?!

An SSH client is also included with Git for Windows, since it includes MSYS, plus Git needs to connect through SSH.

There's also Cygwin, which comes with the OpenSSH server in addition to the client. For a preconfigured Cygwin when I needed it, found Babun to be useful: https://babun.github.io/

Yes. Coupled with cmder for a nice terminal interface, msysgit's ssh is what I've been using for about the past year and a half. Works great.

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