Tobias Rapp wrote: >> 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]).
Ah ok, long time ago since I read about it. > 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. That makes it less secure, at least in a public environment. SSH keys do neither allow validation of key integrity nor identity of the key owner, AFAIK. > 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. That's why I doubt that somebody will take the job unless required in a commercial project, in such a case it would make sense of course. -- Arno Garrels -- 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
