Is Secure-Ftp ALWAYS = SSL-Ftp ? Other forms of encrypted FTP transfers ?

Is Secure-Ftp ALWAYS = SSL-Ftp ?

Or what are the differences ?

I want to perform encrypted ftp transfers.

Are there other methods of ftp transfers which offer encryption?

Wolfgang

 

It depends what you mean by each of those terms. I would say that neither
term is commonly recognised, so there's lots of scope for ambiguity.

I would recommend you use SFTP (secure file transfer over SSH). Linux
systems handle this as standard. Windows systems need a third-party
application; I've used WinSCP, and I know of other people using the
BitVise product.

Just to muddy the waters, unfortunately, some vendors (mainly in the
Windows world, I believe) offer secure file transfer by running the
entire FTP (you know, the stuff that runs over ports 21/20) over an
SSH session. Ipswitch is one company that certainly /used/ to do this -
it may still do.

Finally, there are a number of proprietary solutions, which offer native
support for things like interrupted file transfers, apparent atomic file
creation (i.e. the file's either there in its entirety or it isn't there
at all), and guaranteed delivery. I haven't used any of these but I'm
sure a search engine will help you find them.

Chris

 

There's also ftps, which is ftp over ssl. It's not as secure as ssh, but
secure enough for most.

....kurt

 

That's what I was describing in my second paragraph. (Just to add to
the complexity it didn't help that I misspelt SSL as SSH, though.)

Chris