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Date:      Tue, 08 Oct 2002 10:27:07 GMT
From:      Socketd <db@traceroute.dk>
To:        Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Secure FTPd
Message-ID:  <20021008.10270700.2907771819@rafter.>
In-Reply-To: <39541696-DA7C-11D6-B1BC-000393681B06@lafn.org>
References:  <39541696-DA7C-11D6-B1BC-000393681B06@lafn.org>

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On 10/8/02, 7:10:12 AM, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote regarding Re:=
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Secure FTPd:

> > Hmm, I think you two *may* be doing down the wrong path...
> > There's a (proposed) standard for encrypted FTP, it's called
> > FTP over TLS ...
> >
> > Here's a link:
> > http://www.ford-hutchinson.com/~fh-1-pfh/ftps-ext.html
> >

> A number of proposed approaches for secure login and ftp have been
> floated over the years.  Only scp, sftp, and sshd have made it into th=
e
> FreeBSD base.  I will keep watching.

http://bsdftpd-ssl.sc.ru/
But then again, it is not in the base system (or ports). If it was up to=
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me no daemons (big network daemons) would be in the base system (well no=
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daemon for FTP, SMTP, but syslogd should be there as there is no good=20
alternatives). But we have a ftpd in the base system (and sadly sendmail=
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is also there), so why aren't there a mod_ssl for ftpd?

Bwt, what is the difference between SSL and TLS, and if I were to make a=
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ftpd which one should I chose and where can I find a SSL/TLS programming=
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tutorial.

Br
socketd

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