FTPS question

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER]

Now that TCPIP V5.7 has added some more new features (like SCTP, FTPS)
I'd like to ask:

Are there any plans for FTP-over-SSL (aka FTPS - in contrast to FTP-over-SSH
aka SFTP) to be implemented in TCPware as well?

Or is FTP-over-TLS (which TCPware is said to support) this FTPS
(what enables one to talk to IBM MVS)?

just curious

TIA

PS: Is there perhaps a current and unbiased TCPware vs. TCPIP/UCX vs.
Multinet feature comparison around? Just like the separate lists at

http://process.com/tcpip/tcpcompare.html
http://process.com/tcpip/multicompare.html

in one but also with features, where UCX has a "YES" (and PSC has not)...
--
Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
Network and OpenVMS system specialist
E-mail Pe...@LANGSTOeGER.at
A-1030 VIENNA AUSTRIA I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist

[Neil Rieck]

On Feb 17, 7:56 am, pe...@langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER)
wrote:

I am a newbie in the area of secure computer communications so my next
statement may be a little naive. I was under the impression that TLS
(transport layer security) is the successor to SSL, and that TLS can
fall back into SSL modes.

Now it is true that I have never seen a TCPware command like "FTPS"
but I believe that you only need to issue "FTP/TLS"

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/OpenVMS.html

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER]

In article <859395cf-8ffb-40a0...@d23g2000prj.googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.r...@sympatico.ca> writes:
>I am a newbie in the area of secure computer communications so my next
>statement may be a little naive. I was under the impression that TLS
>(transport layer security) is the successor to SSL, and that TLS can
>fall back into SSL modes.

Don't know either. I was told by our IBM guys, that they don't support
sFTP (but only FTP-over-SSL) and I knew TCPIP (V5.6) doesn't do FTPS.
So question was, how to proceed (switch again to TCPware, or a U**X system
in between or something else). Currently there is (for other reasons as
well) a U**X system in between now, but TCPIP V5.7 changed the picture
(as we already run it on V8.3) recently again, too.

I was only curious for TCPware (as I had no real reason to dig into it then)

>Now it is true that I have never seen a TCPware command like "FTPS"
>but I believe that you only need to issue "FTP/TLS"

Good to know. Never saw this. HELP doesn't mention it (and "$ @CNFNET FTP"
also doesn't ask for secure FTP) so it seems I need to dig into the docs
just for my own curiosity...

[Richard Whalen]

TCPware does NOT have SCTP.

As Neil Rieck has written FTP over TLS and FTP over SSL are inter-operable
as TLS and SSL are inter-operable.

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