Re: A future for the SSH File Transfer Protocol?

[Markus Friedl <markus%openbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 09:09:17PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, November 11, 2001, at 08:07 , Damien Miller wrote:
> >
> > - Inability to do basic filesystem operations (e.g. rename)
> > - Inability to access parts of files, or continue aborted transfers
> 
> Those are issues, especially the second. But that's not rcp anymore.
> >
> > You really want to have a protocol which forces clients to include code
> > to protect from a hostile server?
> 
> I think, by definition, cryptographic implementations must.

but cryptography is not relevant for sftp/scp.

-m