On Monday 01 May 2017 22:36:00 Nils Freydank wrote: > 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.
I'm not sure what you mean "used in the wild". I use lftp to connect via ftps with a number of webservers for updates and backups on a daily basis. Some of the connections are scripted. > [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 -- Regards, Mick
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