# Re: FTP over SSL using Java ... anyone tried it?

Jeff Nisewanger (Jeff.Nisewanger@Eng)
Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:32:05 -0800

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    Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:32:05 -0800

    From: Jeff.Nisewanger@Eng (Jeff Nisewanger)

    Message-Id: <199804022332.PAA18554@puuoo.eng.sun.com>

    To: java-security@web1.javasoft.com, geoffs@udax.com.au

    Subject: Re: FTP over SSL using Java ... anyone tried it?

> Has anyone ever tried doing FTP over SSL using Java? Any commercial
> products? (i'm an optimist ;-)
>
> I can't find a trace of it on the web, which is making me wonder if it is
> just a dumb idea?
>
> The only SSL capable FTP client I've been able to track down is from SSLeay
> (not java), and that looked like it was a bit of an experiment...

I'm not familiar with any Java FTP implementation which
uses SSL. It's not a dumb idea. There is an internet draft for how to
do ftp over SSL/TLS. The URL is:

ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-03.txt

Jeff

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