On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > Is there a daemon I can run besides ftp which has clients which run on
> > Windows and Macs to allow password protected access for uploading?
> > This isn't for anonymous uploads.
> ...
> > I hate ftp. The design of the protocol itself is OLD, from the early
> > 70s -- that's over 25 years! (see http://www.wu-ftpd.org/rfc/)
>
> The fact that the protocol's design is old doesn't make it less
> useful.
>
> Ethernet/IP/UDP/TCP/etc. are all old. Should we replace them because
> they are old?
No we shouldn't. We should replace it because it is inherently insecure
in that all authentication is passed in the clear, as is all of your data;
and because no one seems to be able to implement it without leaving gaping
holes in it aside from those already sufficiently damning problems I just
named.
--
Derek Martin
Senior System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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