On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:03:58PM -0000, john bennett wrote:
whats the diffrence between kdx & ftp? not up on these things -
FTP is a standard protocol, implemented on most computers that have some idea of a network. It is insecure, as the username and password are sent in unencrypted plaintext as part of the FTP session. Anyone who has access to your network media (tapped your phone line, or share an ethernet hub, or sumfink) can sniff your password. The content of the files you transfer is also unencrtyped and available to any nosy sod. Because the protocol is standardised and open, anyone can write FTP clients and/or servers, and any FTP client can talk to any FTP server. This makes FTP very portable, and is why it became the standard way of moving files across networks. In todays crazy mixed up world it's not secure enough for some peoples, so they use SFTP or SCP (which use SSH) instead. Or ... KDX is a proprietary system (developed and owned, I believe, by Haxial Software) that requires you to (purchase,) download and install their software. This means it only runs on the systems that they release the software for. Files tranfered by KDX are encrypted, and all login info is encrypted too, so it's far more secure.. As i understand it KDX also gives you a sort of chat/instant-message feature, and funky pictures saying who's connected to your KDX server, but this sort of new-fangled confabulation is too much for me. I get the fear from 256 colour displays. jon -- "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these." - Paul Harvey