Not OFFLIST Re: TECH: info on ftp

Den 27. aug. 2008 kl. 11.58 skreiv Mark J. Reed:

> 1. That wasn't offlist. :)
But it sure was of general interest.

> This is why there's ssh and scp and https:// URL's - those extra S's
> stand for "secure".  Which is perhaps an overstatement, but it's
> definitely *more* secure. :)  The data "on the wire" in such cases is
> encrypted, and someone in between the two computers, even with access
> to the complete session, has no way of decrypting the data.
Thanks for the info. Ok, I'd better look into this ssh and scp stuff.
Hope they're not too cumbersome. Though I do use a special password
for ftp.

LEF

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