Features in MindTerm

MindTerm is an SSH Java library and an SSH client. The library is available for OEM customers to be included in third party applications to enable secure communication. The SSH client is an implementation on top of the SSH library implementing a secure shell client ready to be used by end users.

MindTerm is small, portable and secure. It contains an very powerful and easy to use SSH client that provides advanced features such as tunneling support, GUI-based file transfers as well as support for HTTP and SOCKS proxies. The MindTerm client also includes an integrated terminal emulator. It has the ability to run both as a standalone application and as an applet.

• 100% Java based

• Swing-based GUI for native platform look and feel and AWT-based GUI for wide platform compatibility

• Support for SSH-1 & SSH-2 protocols

• Support for TCP traffic tunnelling from other applications

• Active tunnel display

• Integrated, full-featured terminal emulator:

  • Full clipboard support (edit, copy, paste)

  • Send text file support

  • Save to text file support

  • Terminal types: xterm, linux, scoansi, att6386,sun, aixterm, vt220, vt100, ansi, vt52, xtermcolor, linux-lat, at386, vt320, vt102, Tandem 6530

  • Terminal color support

  • Fonts and font size can be changed

• Ability to save passwords in encrypted files with a global password protecting all settings

• Ability to connect through HTTP & SOCKS proxies. MindTerm can also act as a Socks proxy

• Integrated ftp proxy which allows the user to connect with a normal ftp client to an ftp server

• Integrated ftp to sftp proxy which allows the user to connect with a normal ftp client to an sftp enabled SSH-2 server

• Support for keep-alive packets

• Integrated DNS round robin: tries to contact all IP-addresses specified in DNS until the connection succeeds

• MindTerm supports password authentication, “keyboard interactive”, public key authentication, host-based authentication and certificates

• Zlib LZ77 (RFC-1950/1951) compression to decrease network traffic

• Supported Ciphers: AES (128, 192, 256 bits), Blowfish, Twofish, Cast-128, 3DES and Arcfour (RC4)

• Key exchange support: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1, diffie-hellman-group14-sha1, diffie-hellman-group1-sha1

• Supported macs: hmac-md5, hmac-sha1, hmac-sha1-96, hmac-md5-96, hmac-ripemd160