Fugu is an
SFTP client for
Mac OS X
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. It has been abandoned by the developers as of 2011. The software as of that time is available on SourceForge.
Fugu was developed by the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
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, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
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's
Research Systems Unix Group
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(RSUG). It is a graphical shell for
OpenSSH
OpenSSH (also known as OpenBSD Secure Shell) is a suite of secure networking utilities based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, which provides a secure channel over an unsecured network in a client–server architecture.
Network Working Gro ...
tools that provides a simple interface to all of the features that SSH has.
The name of the program is an
homage to the
Blowfish encryption algorithm used by OpenSSH, as a
fugu is a type of
blowfish
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.
Further reading
References
External links
SourceForge Archive
Free FTP clients
MacOS-only free software
SSH File Transfer Protocol clients
Software using the BSD license
Apple Design Awards recipients
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