Re: Secure file transfer

Flash Gordon wrote:
Sebastian G. wrote, On 17/12/07 18:35:
Gerald Vogt wrote:

Is this a Core FTP specific thing?

No, and SFTP specific thing.

That standard sftp client which
comes with ssh packages like openssh transfers everything (command and
data) through a SSH link. AFAIK it does not even use the FTP protocol.

Well, then it's SCP, a whole different standard. And more secure than
SFTP, for exactly the mentioned detail.

...
Note from the last of these that it is sshd that actually launches the
sftp-server.

So sftp and scp are exactly as secure as each other.

Also note that ftps is a completely different matter.

So we have to find out what Core FTP does when it connects via "SSH/
SFTP" as mentioned in the OP. For me this "SSH/SFTP" sounds like it
does the normal transfers like the SSH sftp client would do...

Gerald
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