Merge PuTTY Portable with portaPuTTY?Submitted by GrumpySmurf on March 4, 2007 - 11:01pm
I've been using portaPuTTY for all my portable PuTTY needs on my flash drive, as it does not store configuration and session information in the registry. Is there any chance that portaPuTTY could be merged with PuTTY Portable, so configuration information is not written to the registry, but is stored in files on the flash drive? ( categories: )
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The point of John's apps
is to not modify the source (exception caught: line 63, "Sudoku Portable" ;) ) so it can be easily updated.
portaPuTTY modifies the source of PuTTY.
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Not quite
I wouldn't be surprised if a hundred other people asked John to create a portableapp version of PuTTY, but I asked after donating money. You'd be amazed how well that works. :-)
Regardless, portaPuTTY modifies the source code of PuTTY in order to put the configuration information in files on the flash drive. I dislike this approach, because it is SO difficult to write good security code. Messing with the source, like portaPuTTY does, scares me.
The way I understand it, PortableApps works differently. It's like a wrapper, which executes before and after the original executable, WITHOUT MODIFICATION of the original executable. Thus, the security of the original executable rests with the author, where it should belong.
THAT is why I specifically requested a PortableApp of PuTTY.
Furthermore,
writing to the registry doesn't have impact on the thumb drive's write cycles. OK, one write at startup and one at closing aren't much, but well...