Re: library/binding for sftp?

[Alan Jump <alan.jump@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:27:30 AM UTC-7, Stefan...@uni-weimar.de wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013, Randy Brukardt wrote:
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> ------  I  love  the  taste  of  Cryptanalysis  in  the morning!  ------

One final thought which goes directly back to the OP's questions.

I'd love to see an Ada binding for SFTP or a similar relatively-secure transfer protocol released to an open-source repository. It would certainly relieve in-house developers from having to come up with their own implementations, and by placing such in an open-source repository, it would invite inspection from outside which may reveal dangerous flaws prior to widespread deployment.

Even though data transfers may be monitored, and with sufficient effort the contents of the packets extracted, there's absolutely nothing that says one can't implement one or more additional encryption layers prior to transmission. Think "belt and suspenders". Or, in a more relevant comparison, encrypting an email using GPG, Enigma, one-time pad, or whatever, then sending it via an encrypted VPN tunnel.

Just my 2p worth. Save up the change for a pint.

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73 de N5ILN
Alan