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Hi there i am Vineet. Can anybody help me out in finding a Secure FTP Client for Linux Platform? I have to test some code that requires a Secure FTP ...
  1. 09-19-2005 #1
    vineet.bharti
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    Secure FTP Client Needed

    Hi there i am Vineet.
    Can anybody help me out in finding a Secure FTP Client for Linux Platform?
    I have to test some code that requires a Secure FTP connection and supports DES-CBC3-SHA Algorithm and TLS1.0.The Client must also provide for configuring the Set of Algorithms to be used
    I know about one such client Wermit but want to check my code using one more client also
    Please Help
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    As far as I know ftp is a very insecure protocol. I don't allow it on my machine at home.

    According to the Bastille website (for Linux security) alternatives are SCP and SFTP.

    Hope this helps
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    You can try WinSCP (SFTP client, and can fallback to SCP if you want)

    http://winscp.net/eng/index.php


    fingal, vineet.bharti does say he is using Secure FTP, and I am understanding that to mean sftp via ssh.

    Also, make sure you have a good chroot for the user.
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    Can anybody help me out in finding a Secure FTP Client for Linux Platform?
    Do you realize that your Linux installation (probably) comes with a command line sftp client? It follows
    Code:
    sftp user@host_name
    SSH under Linux, which is OpenSSH implementation, supports 3DES (default), blowfish and DES (legacy support). You should read the
    Code:
    man ssh
    and
    Code:
    man ssh_config
    pages for more options.

    I have never used a TLS client, but I found one called
    Code:
    s_client
    on my SuSE machine.
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    oh yes anomie is correct. Didnt even think ofthat, even though I use it all the time. Doh!
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    Re: Secure FTP

    Thnx 4 help
    but i think that i missed out the fact that i need a client which can be configured to select the cipher suite to be send before the connection which is DES-CBC3-SHA.
    You guys can check out Wermit (on google) if interested.
    Manwhile i have downloaded a client named jftp (for Windows) and will run
    tests on that
    Will keep all of u updated
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    Re: Secure FTP

    Quote Originally Posted by vineet.bharti
    but i think that i missed out the fact that i need a client which can be configured to select the cipher suite to be send before the connection which is DES-CBC3-SHA.
    SSH allows you to tell it what cipher(s) to use.
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    So does winSCP
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    try sending files by snailmail. It's a lot more safer.
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