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| Hi, Is there someone that can help me clarify what is meant by SFTP over SSH? There is something called SSH file transfer protocol, and another protocol called Secure FTP, the practice of running FTP over SSH... I would like to know exactly what is meant in the WS_FTP Pro Software Development Kit (SDK). I haven't found much documentation about the securitty parts for this SDK. Is the control channel and the data channel sent over two different SSH sessions? Or is the data channel not encrypted? I am about to port/wrap the functionality of the SFTP from C++ to an inhouse programming language of my company and I need to understand if I need the SSL objects (IWsftpSSLAuthCertStore, IWsftpSSLCertificate). Is there someone that can shed some light on this? Thanks!  /Magnus |
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| >>>"There is something called SSH file transfer protocol, and another protocol called Secure FTP, the practice of running FTP over SSH..."
SSH is at its heart a tunnelling protocol, so I understand the confusion. This product uses "SSH file transfer protocol" (like the free PSFTP client from Putty uses). As you noted, this is different than running FTP over an SSH tunnel and is also different from SCP.
>>>"Is the control channel and the data channel sent over two different SSH sessions?
No - it's one session. (And one TCP connection.)
>>>"I am about to port/wrap the functionality of the SFTP from C++ to an inhouse programming language of my company and I need to understand if I need the SSL objects (IWsftpSSLAuthCertStore, IWsftpSSLCertificate)."
Probably not. There are a couple implementations of SSH which use SSL, but they are so far quite proprietary. (Like almost everything else in the SSH world, the standard to follow is OpenSSH.)
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