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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: 9front@9front.org, sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de>
Subject: Re: [9front] ip/ftpd patch with tls support.
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2021 12:34:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8402ffc024a5064@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84690bde-143b-4c7f-9a32-c445633124c0@sirjofri.de>

sirjofri writes:
> Is ftpd with tls support the same as ftps? Then I'd really love this 
> patch applied soon (but stable), it would be a better replacement for 
> cifsd. That said, I can also test things out and read the code.

No.  ftps just wraps the existing FTP conctions in TLS, the same
way https wraps http.  The other method is defined in RFC 4217; it
adds the AUTH TLS command which acts in a manner similar to SMTP's
STARTTLS, allowing you to upgrade the control connection from plain-
text to encrypted.

--lyndon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-26  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-23 19:47 james palmer
2021-04-23 21:29 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-04-24  7:58   ` sirjofri
2021-04-24  8:13     ` hiro
2021-04-24  9:00     ` Steve Simon
2021-04-24 15:03       ` james palmer
2021-04-24 15:01     ` james palmer
2021-04-24 19:34     ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) [this message]
2021-04-26  6:34       ` james palmer
2021-04-24 15:12   ` james palmer

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