It's actually including a subset of cygwin built with a fork of mingw, which includes the openssh-clients. It's the same as if you installed cygwin and used ssh

It's actually including a subset of cygwin built with a fork of mingw, which includes the openssh-clients. It's the same as if you installed cygwin and used ssh from that. That being said, when I'm looking for git and friends I like to go further and install more of cygwin to run the native port of rxvt and then run ssh inside of THAT. So it's not really a solution for a shell in the way that PuTTY is, since PuTTY also is a decent terminal emulator for Windows. Not the greatest, but decent. It's the single-binary, run from a thumbdrive option.