Re: FTP
From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 10/31/02
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From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:13:42 GMT
In article <d0ef01c28075$e503b6b0$39ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA08>, "avgreen"
<avgreen@rcnchicago.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a way to block certain file types from
>loading to an FTP server. i am using Windows 2000 FTP
>services and i want to prevent people from uploading
>unencrypted files to my server.
>Specifically, i would like the server to reject files that
>do not have a pgp extension.
My immediate thought is that this doesn't achieve what you're trying to
achieve. There's nothing then to stop someone deciding that it's too
inconvenient to go find a PGP executable, so he's just going to rename
"secret-file.txt" as "secret-file.pgp" (or whatever the PGP extension might
be), and upload it.
No, if you want your uploads to be safe from spying, you need to ensure that
cryptography is negotiated, and enabled, on the connection itself.
You can do this either by installing a wrapper on top of your server that
enables SSL encryption, or using a third-party FTP server such as our own
WFTPD Pro, that supports SSL encryption natively.
Alun.
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