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Posted by Karl Levinson, mvp on June 15, 2005, 9:16 pm
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> Im looking for a windows secure ftp program. Any thing stand out ?
What do you mean by secure? By default, FTP is not encrypted across the
network, and the password and data can theoretically be sniffed or hijacked
by a man in the middle of the network transmission.
If you mean you need the transmission to be encrypted, there are some
possible suggestions at http://securityadmin.info/faq.asp#ftpencryption
Unless you use WebDAV over HTTPS or FTP over IPSec over VPN, any encrypted
FTP solution is probably going to require installing a third party
non-Microsoft proprietary server and give all the clients a matching FTP
client to install as well.
If the data you are serving up does not need to be password protected, just
using anonymous FTP prevents passwords from being captured without requiring
you install a third party encryption FTP application.
If you mean you don't want your server to be hacked, Microsoft IIS FTP on
Windows Server 2003 is fairly secure, as long as you configure it
correctly... but except for the previously mentioned possibilities of IPSec
or VPN, it doesn't come with encryption as an option by default.
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