[nylug-talk] best cli program to do FTP w/implicit encryption?

[Peter C. Norton]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 08:24:09AM -0700, Lindsay Hausner wrote:
> > And on the client side, kermit or lftp.
> > 
> > -Peter
> 
> 
> What about vsftpd?  I'm not sure what you mean by
> 'implicit' but new versions do support ssl...
> 
> lh..
> http://www.trustix.com/

Yes, implicit isn't a term I'm familiar with. There are generally two
ways to do this.

1) Ftp+tls (with an AUTH TLS verb added to the commands)
2) FTPd wrapped by an ssl wrapper

Option (1) is considered the "right" thing to do because it'll add
mostly-user-transparent encryption to the process.

Option (2) is considered bad because it requires a separate server on
a separate port and doesn't provide fallback.

I'm guessing "implicit" refers to (1)?

-Peter

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