Free Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) Clients Free SFTP Clients For security reasons, SSC has switched to SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol). The following is a list of SFTP clients that are free for download, for Mac and Windows. SSH Secure Shell – http://computing.sscnet.ucla.edu/public/security/ssh.aspx Free for download hosted by SSC . The SSH Secure Shell for Workstation Windows client does not have any special hardware or software requirements. Any computer capable of running a current version of the Microsoft Windows operating system (Windows 95 (OSR2.1), Windows 98 or 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows NT 4 (with Service Pack 5 or 6 installed), Windows 2000 (with Service Pack 1 or 2 installed), or Windows XP), and equipped with a functional connection to a remote host computer can be used. Filezilla – http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ Free for download. FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows users. Operating System: 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP), Win2K, WinXP CuteFTP Mac Pro – http://www.bol.ucla.edu/software/mac/cuteftp/ Free for download hosted by Bruin Online. Cute FTP Mac is Tiger (Mac OSX 10.4) ready, has a multi-threaded thin “Metal” (Cocoa) interface, powerful automation features, and strong security for protecting your FTP sessions. Login and transfer files using Secure Shell 2 ( SFTP ) or Secure Socket Layer ( SSL ) protocols. CuteFTP Pro – http://www.cuteftp.com/cuteftppro/ The Windows option for CuteFTP Pro is not free for download (you to purchase the software via link above) but it does support many industry standard protocols including FTP , FTPS , HTTP , HTTPS and SSH . SecureFX – http://www.vandyke.com/products/securefx/ This is a reliable secure FTP software for windows. SecureFX is not free . CoreFTP – http://www.coreftp.com/ Fast and reliable SFTP / FTP software. It’s available for free download. MacFuse – http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ MacFUSE implements a mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on Mac OS X (10.4 and above). SSHFS is one of the popular plug-ins for MacFuse which connects securely to SSH servers from the Finder. MacFusion – http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/mgorbach/MacFusionWeb/ MacFusion is a beta plugin for MacFuse that brings a simple GUI for SSH /(S) FTP connections. Fugu – http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/ Fugu is a graphical frontend to the commandline Secure File Transfer application ( SFTP ). Fugu is available under a BSD -style license. CyberDuck – http://cyberduck.ch/ Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP ( SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript. Mac OS X’s built-in SFTP – http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/security/ Mac OS X features networking security standards already bundled with the system including OpenSSH. You can access SFTP from the Terminal application (found in /Applications/Utilities). For more information see Apple’s security page or the manual page for SFTP WinSCP – http://winscp.net WinSCP is a free, open source SCP and SFTP client for Windows.