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Subject: Re: FTP Encryption
From: Bernd . Lehle @ RUS . Uni-Stuttgart . DE (Bernd Lehle)
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 10:08:25 +0200 (DST)
To: adam @ homeport . org (Adam Shostack)
Cc: Bernd . Lehle @ RUS . Uni-Stuttgart . DE, CWSTAFFORD @ deserthosp . org
In-reply-to: <199605311614 . LAA16235 @ homeport . org> from "Adam Shostack" at May 31, 96 11:14:47 am

> I like ssh, but if you use FTP + pgp, anyone can download & decrypt.
> With ssh, Mac users, VMS users, IBM mainframe users, fidonet users,
> and the like are all out of luck.

If You are trying to set up an ftp server for many people, then this
is a better solution. The original question reffered to transfer within
a company though.

> If you use scp, you get link encryption, but not file encryption,
> which may be more important.  Are you trying to let anyone download
> your files, and only those who give you money read what they've
> downloaded?

This would be a nice idea to charge for information supplied over Internet.

Here in Stuttgart we use secure shell for administrative logins and file
transfers across the campus network, which is considered insecure.

-- 
> Bernd Lehle - Stuttgart University Computer Center * A supercomputer < 
>      Visualization / Security / Astrophysics       * is a machine    <
> lehle @
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 uni-stuttgart .
 de   Tel:+49-711-685-5531  * that runs an    < 
>   http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~lehle    * endless loop    < 
>  pgp? -> finger bernd @
 visbl .
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 uni-stuttgart .
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