Re: ftpd-ssl
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:09:21PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> Probably more people would use it if more ftp clients supported it...
> I don't know how well it's supported in MS and Apple worlds...
I don't know of a single native Windows or Mac ftp client that supports
it. For that matter, the last time I checked support in the UNIX world
wasn't that great either. Most of my ftp is through wget or ncftp (in
both Linux and Windows) and I don't think either one supports ssl-ftp.
I think it's partly a chicken-and-egg problem. Why use it when almost no
software supports it and almost no sites use it? Why enable it on your
site when almost nobody uses it and almost no clients support it? Why
add it to your client when nobody uses it and most people don't even
understand why they might want to? I suspect that most people/sites who
are concerned about security use ssh/scp/sftp instead.
There's also an SSL-enabled telnet, which almost nobody uses for the
same reason. SSL-wrapped POP3 is slightly more common, but I think the
only truly common uses of SSL are for HTTP and IMAP....
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Michael Heironimus
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