Re: secure transfers and authentication

[James Grace <e1photon () gmail com>]

I second the scp and maybe add the sftp protocol as well.

-- James

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 16:57 -0500, Francisco Neira Basso wrote:
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> mgk.mailing wrote:
> > Hi List
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone had run across anything that would help with
> > my current project.   I am looking to automate transfers over an
> > insecure network where both the client and server are authenticated to
> > each other.  My current line of thinking is using ssl signed
> > certificates from our Certificate authority to do the authentication and
> > then https to transfer the data.  Putting aside that http may not be the
> > best transfer mechanism for data can anyone make any suggestions or
> > point out any potential pitfalls that maybe there?  It is vital that the
> > transfer is protected and that the client and server is authenticated.
> > Thanks
> >
> > mgk
>
> Hello,
>
> What about scp?
>
>
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> Francisco Neira B.
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