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

Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> Mon, 15 July 2013 19:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00
From: Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu>
To: Mouse <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
Cc: jhutz@cmu.edu, ietf-ssh@NetBSD.org
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:39:05 -0400
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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.

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