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
