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

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Fri, 12 July 2013 11:37 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00
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S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> writes:

>The SSH File Transfer Protocol provides secure file transfer functionality
>over any reliable data stream.  It is the standard file transfer protocol for
>use with the SSH2 protocol. draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00 (
>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00 ) describes the
>file transfer protocol and its interface to the SSH2 protocol suite.
>
>I would appreciate if you read the draft and comment.

Some background information on this decision would be useful, for example why
restart work on it now, and why use version 3 of the protocol as the baseline?

Peter.