On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 11:44 -0600, Aly Dharshi wrote: > > FTP is in the same class as TELNET... obsolete, redundant, less secure, > > etc... :) > > I think that with ftp+ssl it would be slightly more secure that it used > to be, aka plain text. I would think that any security site conscious > site would want to use ssh based stuff, but for a plain transfer of > files such as iso's or putting stuff up on a site ftp+ssl combo would do > the trick. FTP+ssl is just as bad. One of the problems is the way the client talks with the server, and not just the authentication. > There are many ftp clients out there, many free, but very few scp/sftp > clients. sftp is much better in terms of auth, but much slower than simple HTTP for data transfer. Rui
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