Connect to SFTP servers by establishing an FTP-to-SFTP bridge supporting TCP/IP tunneling, restarted transfers, directory listing, etc. The suite is also compatible with CDSA, RSA, and DSA public key authentication. SSH port forwarding is possible along with dynamic forwarding through integrated SOCKS and HTTP CONNECT proxy.
This software is designed to interface with another system, which has the server software already installed and running on it. The free version allows for up to five separate installations of this SSH2 Client software, to be used by a small group of people. The client software will connect to another Bitvise SSH2 Server, as well as FTP sites on the Internet, but the user has to configure the client software to do this. This SSH2 Client software has advanced features when connecting to another SSH2 server, such as bvterm console and remote server configuration.
The bvterm console feature has support for the full spectrum of a Windows console's features, including the following: colors, Unicode characters, all-key access, and large scrollable buffers. When connected to the SSH2 Server software, the user has all the SSH server settings available to them, which they can configure remotely as if they were sitting in front of the server itself.
This program has one of the most advanced graphical user interfaces I personally have ever used or heard of before. The client software utilizes terminal emulation with support for the following protocols, bvterm, xterm, and vt100. This software is simple enough for the home user, and has advanced features for businesses. This software uses the single sign-on support for SSPI (GSSAPI) Kerberos 5 and NTLM user authentication, as well as Kerberos 5 host authentication.
This software can be configured for SSH port forwarding capabilities, such as dynamic forwarding through integrated SOCKS and HTTP CONNECT proxies. This software is also portable whereas the end-user can create a USB key, in the U3 and PortableApps format.
When connecting to either an FTP site or another SFTP server site, there are various features that this software is equipped with. When a user is downloading or uploading with this program, it has an option to automatically resume with whichever file or files the person was transferring. This program has the ability to retrieve all files and sub-directories from a single command line, instead of just selecting one file or folder at a time. This would be a good way to transfer files from one computer over the same network or to a different remote computer connected to the internet.
v8.38 [Apr 19, 2019]
- When creating a new profile or when using the SSH Client's command line clients (sftpc, sexec, stermc, stnlc, spksc) without the -profile=... parameter, the SSH Client will now by default prefer Curve25519 and ECDH key exchange over traditional Diffie Hellman. Classic DH is significantly slower and more computationally expensive, while there continues to be no known reason to de-prefer Elliptic Curve cryptography. Existing profiles are unaffected and will keep their algorithm preference order.
- SFTP GUI: In Windows 10 version 1903, when using the Open action or when double-clicking a file whose extension has no file association, Windows may no longer offer to select a program with which to open the file, but may instead fail the action. The SSH Client will now automatically use Open with if the Open action fails in this manner.
- SFTP GUI: The SFTP GUI now supports mouse button 4 to trigger the Back action and mouse button 5 to trigger Forward, in a manner consistent with common browsers.
- There exist interim, but deployed versions of SSH implementations including SmartFTP which implement the no-flow-control extension based on a previous, non-final draft where the extension value was empty. Bitvise SSH Server, SSH Client and FlowSsh will now no longer disconnect when receiving an unrecognized no-flow-control extension value, but will attempt to continue; and will now treat an empty value as if the remote party sent "p" (for "preferred").
- Polished a few issues in BvSshUpdate, the SSH Client's command-line version update utility.
A program that lets you easily manage your laptop connections to WiMAX networks
