On Wednesday, 04/30/2008 at 01:20 EDT, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > I don't understand why the Unix/Linux world prefers SFTP to FTPS
> 
> Implementation of SFTP doesn't require certificate management
> infrastructure and expensive certificates from external organizations.
> Ssh is also open source and freely distributed; few if any FTPS clients
> or servers are.

No certificate management?  Feh.  You are responsible to adhere to your 
company's policy regarding certificates.  Old or ill-managed certificates 
are just as dangerous as old or ill-managed passwords.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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