On Sunday 07 April 2002 15:48, David Howe wrote: > > Standard Networks, Inc. has written a free command-line FTP client > > which > > > supports passive transfers and secure transfers using SSL for Windows > > 95/98/XP/NT/2K. > > Had a quick look, but couldn't really check security as I could find > no source to this utility (and wasn't interested in filling in a quiz on > my employer's use of secure file transfer for the privilege of > downloading the "evaluation" - presumably an error setting up the > download page) > From the overview pages though, it seems to be promoting a new "FTPS" > (ssl wrappered ftp, presumably in the same manner that HTTPS wrappers > HTTP) format to compete with the existing SFTP "shim" to SCP available > from several sources - presumably with their own MOVEit server (closed > source, commercial) to supply the server end. > Has anyone else seen a ssl wrappered ftp client or server compatable > with this one? Well, it is pretty easy to SSL tunnel any TCP protocol. In Linux there are a few different command line utilities that can proxy an SSH connection to a non-ssh one, so there is no particular reason why you should HAVE to use their "FTPS" server, unless it has some idiotsyncracies in the way it handles SSL. In any case I believe there are several linux howto's around that discuss these sorts of things. I don't see a huge advantage to doing this sort of thing though vs using IPSEC or SSH tunneling (but then if you have SSH why bother with this at all, SFTP works fine, and there is a perfectly useable GUI SFTP client for windows).
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