The term secure file transfer protocol can refer to both following protocols:
- SSH file transfer protocol, a file transfer protocol specifically developed by the IETF to run over secure shell (SSH) connections
- Secure FTP, the practice of running a normal FTP protocol session over SSH (FTP over SSH)
The ambiguity comes from the acronym for the SSH-based SSH File Transfer Protocol having the same acronym as one of the terms referring to tunneling regular FTP connections over SSH: Secure FTP.
Famous quotes containing the words secure, file and/or transfer:
“What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“No sociologist ... should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.”
—Max Weber (1864–1920)