Issues with SFTP

[Kevin Steves]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
:SFTP exists because SCP isn't transparent enough (it sure as hell ain't
:faster).

oh, can you educate us on the history of sftp and rcp/scp?

SCP wasn't very usable, so it wasn't used, so security suffered
:because FTP refused to die.

really?

SFTP was born, and has a chance to wipe out
:FTP.  You wanna tell me SFTP should be less usable than Windows95 ftp.exe?
::-)

actually, HTTP is the FTP successor.  everyone knows that.