Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00

[Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz%cmu.edu@localhost>]

On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 08:56 -0400, Mouse wrote:
> > The SSH File Transfer Protocol provides secure file transfer
> > functionality over any reliable data stream.
> 
> Well...it, combined with the rest of ssh, does; sftp itself doesn't
> provide any significant level of security, depending on lower layers
> for that.

Yeah, the language is purely written.  As I recall, the intended meaning
is that SFTP can be run over _any_ data stream; it doesn't have to be an
SSH channel.