FTP over TLS

Carl Waldbieser waldbie at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 26 16:14:39 EST 2005


David Isaac wrote:

> 
> "Carl Waldbieser" <waldbie at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:dm2sc0$4i2$1 at domitilla.aioe.org...
>> Does anyone know of any good examples for writing client side code to
> upload
>> files over a secure FTP connection?
> 
> http://trevp.net/tlslite/
> 
> Alan Isaac

Thanks.  I have actually looked at this library before.  It looks like it
might be able to do what I want, but my problem is that I don't really
understand how the protocol itself works very well.  I mean, from a high
level view, I thing something like this happens:

1) FTP client contacts server, sends command requesting secure connection.
2) Server responds by sending some sort of public key
3) Client uses key to encrypt the rest of the communication.

I don't really understand the nitty-gritty of what's going on, though.  I
can read the API for the library, but I am really lost as to how to use it.

I didn't see any docs on the site that clarify how it's supposed to be used. 
Did I miss something?  Is there somewhere else I should be looking?

Thanks




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