Overview

Your ability to send and receive emails is largely due to 3 TCP protocols: SMTP, IMAP, and POP3. If you've got a couple of minutes to spare, now's a good time to know what they are and how they differ from one another.

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Topics: Secure File Transfer, FTP

Overview

Several months ago, we published a tutorial crafted to help network/server administrators prepare trading partners for SFTP automation. That article lacked one important feature found in SFTP - public key authentication. So today, we've devoted one full tutorial that focuses on that.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP

Overview: File Transfer Protocols for Businesses

Still wondering which file transfer protocol is right for your business? Here are a dozen you can choose from. Below this list, we've also added brief descriptions of these data transfer types to make your choice easier.

1. FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
2. HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
3. FTPS (FTP over SSL)
4. HTTPS (HTTP over SSL)
5. SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
6. SCP (Secure Copy)
7. WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)
8. WebDAVS
9. TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
10. AS2 (Applicability Statement 2)
11. OFTP (Odette File Transfer Protocol)
12. AFTP (Accelerated File Transfer Protocol)

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Topics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, Accelerated File Transfer, transfer protocols

Overview

SCP (Secure Copy) is a quick, easy way to transfer files securely between two Linux machines. If you don't mind using the command line and all you want is a simple way to upload or download files on Linux, this series of SCP examples should be all you'll need to learn how to do it.

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Topics: Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP

Overview

Most chief executive officers would have no time to scrutinize their organization's file transfer activities. That's bound to change once they start asking these 5 simple questions.

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Topics: Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Secure File Transfer

Overview

Client certificate authentication is very suitable for highly secure HTTPS connections. But for this type of authentication to work, the server must be configured for it, and a client certificate must be loaded onto a client application. In this post, we'll focus on the client side. More specifically, we'll talk about how you can import a client certificate to Firefox.

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Topics: Managed File Transfer, Secure File Transfer, client certificate

Overview

Not many organizations require AES 256 encryption to secure their sensitive documents. But those who do might find this post quite useful. Here, we'll show you how to enable FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS, WebDAVS, OFTP, and AS2 file transfers with AES 256 bit encryption. Does that look like something you can use? Read on!

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, AS2

A growing number of businesses are finding it imperative to get certain products out in the market FAST. To beat extremely tight deadlines, most of them employ IT systems to accelerate business processes. Whenever these processes require file exchanges across departments, cities, or continents, file transfer systems start to play a crucial role. And that role doesn't just involve moving files from point A to point B.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, AS2

Overview: Stream Ciphers vs. Block Ciphers

Secure file transfer protocols like SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS, and WebDAVS encrypt data through symmetric key ciphers. These ciphers can be classified into two groups: stream ciphers and block ciphers. Today, we'll discuss what a stream cipher is and what a block cipher is. We'll also talk about the popular encryption algorithms that fall under each group.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer

Overview

The strength of an encryption largely depends on two components: 1) the cipher and 2) the length of the key. We already discussed key lengths in an older post. So today, let's talk about the other component.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS