I had never heard of simple FTP either. I'm with you, Frank, plug SFTP into a search engine and you're going to get secure FTP - running over SSH.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Friday, April 16, 2021 11:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [External] Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs 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 The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
