Re: [9fans] Secure ftp Again

[Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>]

--On 2005-4-3 4:05 PM -0700 geoff@collyer.net wrote:

> If one were going to add TLS dialing as a standard facility, I'd
> suggest adding it to cs, not dial, perhaps as a qualifier similar to
> "!r": tcp!host!ftp!tls.  This would make TLS dialing available
> uniformly and immediately to all programs, without recompilation, and
> even to command-line usage.

But the trend is towards negotiating TLS after chatting over the 
connection a bit. IMAP, SMTP, and POP all have a separate command to 
start up TLS. (Yes, there is an unofficial "imaps" that I expect to 
slowly die out now that RFC3501 has made STARTTLS mandatory to 
implement.)

So adding "...!tls" to cs doesn't really solve the general case.

--lyndon