A.9 Administrative questions

• A.9.1 Is putty.org your website?
• A.9.2 When putty.org replaced its content with anti-vaccine propaganda in July 2025, was that because you were hacked or vandalised or taken over?
• A.9.3 With all these landing pages and imitators, how can I be sure where the real PuTTY website is?
• A.9.4 Why do the download links point to the.earth.li and not chiark? Has your website been hacked?
• A.9.5 Would you like me to register you a nicer domain name?
• A.9.6 Would you like free web hosting for the PuTTY web site?
• A.9.7 Would you link to my web site from the PuTTY web site?
• A.9.8 Why don't you move PuTTY to Github (or some other well known forge site)?
• A.9.9 Why can't I subscribe to the putty-bugs mailing list?
• A.9.10 If putty-bugs isn't a general-subscription mailing list, what is?
• A.9.11 How can I donate to PuTTY development?
• A.9.12 Can I have permission to put PuTTY on a cover disk / distribute it with other software / etc?
• A.9.13 Can you sign an agreement indemnifying us against security problems in PuTTY?
• A.9.14 Can you sign this form granting us permission to use/distribute PuTTY?
• A.9.15 Can you write us a formal notice of permission to use PuTTY?
• A.9.16 Can you sign anything for us?
• A.9.17 If you won't sign anything, can you give us some sort of assurance that you won't make PuTTY closed-source in future?
• A.9.18 Can you provide us with export control information / FIPS certification for PuTTY?
• A.9.19 As one of our existing software vendors, can you just fill in this questionnaire for us?
• A.9.20 The sha1sums / sha256sums / etc files on your download page don't match the binaries.