Thanks for the tips Adam. Just for the record, The Secure FTP you suggested does work with 5.2 SSLSERV.
Ray Mrohs U.S. Department of Justice 202-307-6896 > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Secure file transfer options? > > On Oct 15, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Mrohs, Ray wrote: > > > What are my options for encrypted file transfers between Solaris and > > z/VM 5.2? I have secure FTP running in VM, and a test using the > > FileZilla desktop client shows that it works. I'm not sure about > > Solaris > > yet, but the sftp client in Linux does not appear to work with VM's > > secure FTP. I'm suspecting that the Solaris results will be > the same. > > I'd rather not use z/Linux as a relay between Solaris and VM, but if > > it's the only option, I will. The other client that needs to work is > > F-Secure FTP in Windows. > > sftp is not what VM gives you. > > sftp is an ftp-like command stream layered atop the ssh protocol. > There is no native VM implementation of this, although we did > produce > an FTP-to-sftp broker a few years ago that did the trick > (admittedly, > transfers from the VM-hosted Linux guest to the VM system > itself were > in the clear, but all traffic on the actual wire outside the VM box > were encrypted). > > I've had pretty good luck with a product called "Secure FTP" from > Glub Tech. http://www.glub.com/products/secureftp/ > > I know it works with the z/VM 5.3 SSLSERV code in negotiated TLS > mode. I don't remember offhand whether it works with 5.2 in > implicit > mode; I suspect I tested it, but I don't remember the > results. There > certainly *are* a few FTP clients for Linux that *can* cope with > implicit SSL as provided by SSLSERV for the z/VM TCP/IP stack, and > they should be easily buildable for Solaris. > > Since Secure FTP is written in Java, it should work fine on Solaris. > > I don't know about F-Secure FTP. I have not tested it. > > Adam >
