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Title : FTP/TLS Friendly Firewalls
Author(s) : P. Ford-Hutchinson
Filename : draft-fordh-ftp-ssl-firewall-02.txt
Pages : 13
Date : 2003-1-8
This document discusses some of the issues with running FTP, secured
with TLS as defined in [FTP-TLS], through firewalls. FTP is known to
be a bit of a problem for firewalls (see [RFC-1579] for a discussion
of normal FTP and firewalls). Some of the problems have been fixed
by adding intelligence into the firewall. With secured FTP, where
the control connection is encrypted, some of these techniques fail.
Whilst this document confines itself to issues of FTP over TLS, the
issues will probably be relevant for most secured FTP protocols that
conform to [RFC-2228]. Some of the discussions will also be relevant
to any protocol that firewalls do clever things with.
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