Secure FTP is a Java-based

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developed by Glub Tech. Some of its features include:

FTPS FTPS (also known as FTP-SSL and FTP Secure) is an extension to the commonly used File Transfer Protocol (FTP) that adds support for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and, formerly, the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL, which is now prohibited by RFC756 ...

(FTP over

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), bookmarks, compression, proxy and

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support, multiple connections,

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, command-line scripting, and localization for 8 languages, including English,

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, Portuguese,

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and

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. It can be used via its

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History

In 1999, Secure FTP started as a senior project at

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by classmates Gary Cohen and Brian Knight. The intent of the project was to address the inherent security flaws in FTP. Up to this point, there were no easy solutions to secure a user's credentials during login to an FTP server. The outcome of this project led to the first known implementation of

(FTP over

).{{cite news , title=login - Securing FTP , date=August 2002 , publisher=Usenix , url =http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2002-08/pdfs/cohen.pdf , access-date = 2009-12-29 On July 26, 2013, the project was open-sourced and moved permanently to

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