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I sometimes think the lack of password saving in putty did more to promulgate the use of ssh keys than anything else.

Kitty has a bunch of useful features , I'll give it a go.




The ability to leak and reuse passwords in general did more to promulgate the use of ssh keys than anything else.


Why would you use PuTTY _or_ KiTTY given that lxrun and a Powershell version of OpenSSH exist?




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