On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 01:47:08 +0000, W Mainframe wrote:
>Come on.....For years FTP works.... Now... Every OS needs to upgrade for
>SFTP?Only now, this protocol is unsure???? One more stupid option... bla. bla
>bla
>
Yup. Technology advances alike on the benign and the malicious sides. The
former
must advance to keep up with the latter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
FTP grew in a heterogeneous envirnment and has accommodations for UNIX,
OS/360, VAX, TOPS-10, ... Somewhat dismayingly, sftp is inexorably
UNIX-centric.
Co:Z tries to address this deficiency.
https://dovetail.com/products/sftp.html
FTPS (is this the same as FTP with AT/TLS?) requires elaborate setup and
firewall
exceptions, partly because of the auxiliary data socket.
-- gil
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