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WinSCP 5.8.1 Beta

WinSCP

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client and SCP client for Windows. Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.

WinSCP features:

  • Graphical user interface
  • Translated into several languages
  • Integration with Windows (drag&drop, URL, shortcut icons)
  • U3 support
  • All common operations with files
  • Support for SFTP and SCP protocols over SSH-1 and SSH-2 and plain old FTP protocol
  • Batch file scripting and command-line interface
  • Directory synchronization in several semi or fully automatic ways
  • Integrated text editor
  • Support for SSH password, keyboard-interactive, public key and Kerberos (GSS) authentication
  • Integrates with Pageant (PuTTY authentication agent) for full support of public key authentication with SSH
  • Explorer and Commander interfaces
  • Optionally stores session information
  • Optionally supports portable operation using a configuration file in place of registry entries, suitable for operation from removable media

WinSCP 5.8.1 Beta changes:

  • SSH core and private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2015-12-22, commit 51465fa). It brings following changes:
  • Support for ChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption. chacha20-poly1305
  • Support for Curve25519 key exchange. curve25519
  • Support for ECDSA keys in PuTTY and PuTTYgen. 1390 ecdsa
  • Support for Ed25519 user and host keys. ed25519
  • WinSCP prefers host-key types it already has cached or configured (in scripting). hostkey-prefer-cached
  • Support for OpenSSH encrypt-then-MAC scheme. encrypt-then-mac
  • Support using public-only key files.
  • Support for OpenSSH’s new key format. [full release notes]

Download: WinSCP 5.8.1 Beta | 8.2 MB (Open Source)
Download: Standalone Executable | 7.0 MB
Link: WinSCP Home page

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