Re: future SFTP version question

[Damien Miller <djm%mindrot.org@localhost>]

jason bailey wrote:
> Would it be within scope to suggest that a future version of the SFTP
> server provide a signed receipt of the file transfer(on request)?
> 
> This feature, would do much to alleviate a lot of our issues with secure
> file transfers.

I don't think that this is within the scope of sftp at all. It would
more appropriately be done by a higher-level protocol, e.g. one that
uses sftp for the file transfer and something else (OpenPGP, S/MIME) for
the signed receipts.

-d