Re: What is the difference between ftp encryption types SSL, TLS, SFTP and SSH ?
- From: Keme <KEMEsixtwonullsix@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:55:38 +0100
Marcus Mender skrev:
I have seen a couple of different encryption types for ftp connections:
TLS
SSL
SFTP
SSH
Ok, provided an ftp server offers all these types: which type should I choose
to setup the ftp server or to select from the ftp clients view ?
Is the security for all these types similar and the difference refers only different protocols?
What are the pros and cons ?
Marcus
Briefly:
SSL is an encryption type.
SSH is remote login using SSL to get encrypted command line access ("secure telnet")
SFTP is file transfer using SSL
TLS is an encryption type (AFAIK, like SSL, but different...)
SSL has fairly universal support across OS/HW platforms. So for the basic, "universally available" service you'd set up your server with SSL, to provide SSH (I guess a command line FTP client would use that) and SFTP support.
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