SSL File Transfer

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, Dec 09 14:20  Fairlight said 'Who you talkin' to? You talkin'
to Fairlight?  I didn't do nuttin'.  I said: 

> When asked his whereabouts on Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 08:01:56AM -0800,
> Steven Waters took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:

> > >One option that I found seemed to point to OpenSSL and
> > >Kermit as a solution but I have never had any luck compiling
> > >stuff on a SCO system. It just never seems to work for me.

> > >Anybody else have any bright ideas?

> > I have been struggling with Kermit on my SCO box and my old
> > Red Hat 8.0. Has anyone been successful with Kermit?

> Do I -want- to know why people are using kermit 15+ years later
> when there are much more robust programs and protocols out
> there?

Kermit is constantly evolving and changing.  It is not the same as
it was when it first came to light in 1981.  So that's actually 23
years later :-)  Actually C-Kermit will officially be 20 years
old in about 2 months.

It has automatic recovery on disconnected transfers so you 
dont have to start from the beginning.

It has SSL, SSH, SRP, Kerberos IV and V.

It will transfer directory trees even when the platforms differ.

It can even act as a server - see RFC2839 and RFC2480

So what is it that >>CURRENT<< kermit programs don't support that
you think of in terms of robustness or protocols. Disintegrating
minds want to know :-)  The topic of this thread was SSL transfers.

And it does things that other programs do not do, and that is
translation of character sets.  It handles text/binary switching
automatically - something that does not occur in other protocols.


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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com