PuTTY wish compress-binaries

summary: Compress shipped PuTTY binaries with a tool such as UPX
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
priority: never: We don't ever intend to fix this.

Occasionally it's suggested that we compress the PuTTY binaries on our website with tools such as UPX.

While it's an interesting idea, it's not currently for us.

Firstly, PuTTY is already quite small and you can comfortably carry around the PuTTY tools you're likely to use frequently on a floppy disk.
Secondly, and more importantly, we provide cryptographic signatures of the binaries we've generated with our compilers. We're as confident as we can be that they've not been tampered with between being built and being signed; UPXing the binaries would make us a lot less confident of this.

In short, if you want to UPX the binaries, fine, but at the moment we're not planning to.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2004-11-16 15:27:00 +0000)