FTP is 40 years old
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FTP is 40 years old
Published on 15th April 2011 by Clive Webster
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/04/15/ftp-is-40-years-old/1
FTP is 40 years old
FTP still forms the backbone of many parts of the Internet, despite its
age.
The backbone of the Internet, FTP (file transfer protocol), celebrates
its
40th birthday tomorrow. Originally launched as the RFC 114
specification,
which was published on 16 April 1971, FTP is arguably even more
important
today than when it was born.
Even though young upstarts such as P2P networks are now available, it*s
FTP
that forms the link to many cloud-based services and applications. It*s
also
deemed more secure than P2P, which is an essential trait for online
banking or
other sensitive traffic
Frank Kenney, vice president of global strategy for US managed file
transfer
company Ipswitch, told us that the protocol we know as FTP today is a
far cry
from when Abhay Bushan, a student at MIT, wrote the original
specifications
for FTP.
According to Kenney, the standard has grown from "a simple protocol to
copy
files over a TCP-based network... [to] a sophisticated, integrated
model that
provides control, visibility, compliance and security in a variety of
environments, including the cloud"
Kenney added that "FTP has gone through a drastic evolution, from a
basic way
of easily moving information, to the foundations for the majority of
the data
transfer and application integration technologies that we all rely on
so
heavily today."
You can find Ipswitch at stand H70 of the Infosecurity Europe 2011 show
in
Earl's Court, London from 19 to 21 April.
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Sean
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