Arno Garrels wrote: > SSH (Secure Shell) is available on nix platforms. Well, it is typically used on Unix-like platforms but there is software available for Windows most notably the popular Putty and WinSCP tools.
> Due to the lack of SSL SSH has been used in the past to tunnel > unsecure FTP on those platforms. Today however most FTP server even > in the Unix wourld do support SSL as well. Hmm, do you talk about SFTP? AFAIK SFTP is not just FTP tunneled over SSH but an own protocol (see [1]). If you talk about tunneling using SSH in general then I would say that this feature is still popular today as it does not need a full-fledged public-key infrastructure (see [2]) and is very easy to setup. The fact that SSL support is implemented in FTP servers by now might be more related to the fact that SSH is considered too powerful to be enabled on a public server :-) (see [3]). > IMO the effort to implement an antiquated protocol, that is specific > to the Unix platform, doesn't make much sense. IMHO it would make sense to implement such a feature-rich multi-purpose protocol in ICS but of course this wouldn't be an easy task. Regards, Tobias [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell#Uses_of_SSH [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell#Security_cautions -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
