The Options menu lets users select among different themes, with five fruity themes like Blueberry, or create their own. In addition to offering security, users comment that the professional and customizable interface makes this program stand out. Version 1.0 was released in September 2000, and there have already been more than 8,500 downloads. "In just a few months this software has become very popular, and has been rated in the Top 5% by Java review service ," said. Secure FTP gives you the option to encrypt just the username and password." The current version of Secure FTP encrypts the command channel, which contains the username and password, and version 2 will add an option to allow the data channel to be encrypted as well. We've been trying for years to eliminate plain text passwords from our networks, and an especially useful feature of Secure FTP is that it doesn't force bulk data encryption, which can greatly slow things down and isn't important to most of our scientific users.
Perrine added that "we'll be recommending Secure FTP as a new service to all our researchers and partners. "The development of Secure FTP is a nice example of how innovative software can be nurtured in SDSC's educational environment, and then mature into commercially supported software."
"As high-performance academic computing becomes more integrated in grid computing, the role of software infrastructure is vital, and that includes security software such as Secure FTP," Karin said. "We noticed there was a lack of security in basic FTP, so we decided that a more secure solution was needed," said Gary Cohen, now of computer security firm Glub Tech, who began development of Secure FTP along with Brian Knight as a UCSD class project supervised by Sid Karin, director of SDSC and UCSD professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Tom Perrine, SDSC manager of security technologies.Īlthough often associated with supercomputing hardware, SDSC also plays an important role in fostering useful software as a core part of building tomorrow's computational infrastructure. Distributed as a free download, Secure FTP uniquely combines good security through strong encryption, ease-of-use, and portability to run on almost any platform supporting Java. Secure FTP, created as a student project at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), is a frequently downloaded new file transfer client that provides users a simple way to have a secure connection while transferring files via FTP (file transfer protocol), the most widely used method of transferring large files over the Internet.
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