Wednesday, May 21, 2008

FTP

FTP allows the transfer of files between computers over a network.

FTP has 3 modes:

  1. Active mode
  2. passive mode
  3. Extended passive mode

The main security issues with FTP is that is transfers files and information unencrypted as it was created before ssl and ssh. This caused problems with user accounts passwords being sniffed by a packet sniffer.

1 comment:

JennieD said...

i really should do this ftp stuff lol