On Sat, 30 Apr 2017 19:04:06 +0200 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > [...] > I fail to see why FTP needs to be replaced: it works, it is > supported, it is secure when used with care, it is damn fast.
I’ll just drop the somewhat popular rant “FTP must die“[1] and a follow-up discussion about it[2]. IMHO the main reasons are missing data integrity and authentication security issues. The latter one can be solved with FTPS[3] - but honestly I never saw FTPS somewhere actually used in the wild. [1] http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11251907 [3] i.e. FTP over SSL/TLS (not to mix up with SFTP, which comes from the SSH family) Greetings, Nils -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank
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