I've never heard of Simple File Transfer Protocol. My guess is most others have not either. SFTP pretty much de facto stands for SSH File Transfer Protocol, which is secure.
________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2021 7:56 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs No; Simple File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is RFC 913 while Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is RFC 1350 . Neither is the same as SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), which is normally used in SSH although it can be used outside of it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2021 9:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:31:10 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I don't know the details, just that SFTP (over SSH) is considered more secures >than FTPS. Raw SFTP is not secure. SFTP is another overloaded acronym; there >is a simple FTP that, I hope, nobody is advocating. > Are you thinking of TFTP? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
