[svlug] anonymous file transfer -- non-FTP?

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 dfox at belvdere.vip.best.com wrote:

> > Better would be a secured, but anonymized, transfer mode.  Essentially
> > an anonymous scp.  Is this readily supported?
> 
> I am not familiar with scp.

What planet did you say you were from? :)

> OTOH, it might be possible to do zmodem under ssh. I haven't tried
> that, either. Early on, though, I had a shell account and was able to
> use szrz to send and receive files that way. Then again, getting
> zmodem stuff to be auto-decrypted and encrypted along with the rest of
> the stuff may not be doable. I am not sure if such technology has been
> incorporated.

It is indeed -- one of the ssh implementations (SecureCRT?) in fact offers
that in lieu of scp.

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