Re: Securing the data channel

I guess more context could help...

Status:	Connected
Status:	Retrieving directory listing...
Command:	PWD
Response:	257 "/" is your current location
Command:	PORT 18,250,6,198,13,127
Response:	200 PORT command successful
Command:	TYPE A
Response:	200 TYPE is now ASCII
Command:	LIST
Response:	150 Connecting to port 3455
Error:	Can't establish SSL connection
Error:	Could not retrieve directory listing
Response:	226-Options: -a -l
Response:	226 25 matches total

On 11/25/05, I wrote:
> Hi all, I have figured out how to get TLS authentication working. But
> README.TLS seems to say that the data itself is not encrypted
> ("However, the data channel is not affected by SSL/TLS."). Is this
> correct? I am hoping to encrypt *everything*, not just commands.
>
> Also, I am trying to use FileZilla to connect, but it gives me the error:
>
> Response:       150 Connecting to port 3455
> Error:  Can't establish SSL connection
> Error:  Could not retrieve directory listing
>
> This seems to suggest that FTP-SSL *does* support encrypted data
> channels, right? (Since it's connecting to another port for the
> encrypted data channel.) Also,
>
> ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4217.txt
>
> suggests the same.
>
> So is it possible to get a secure data channel using pure-ftpd? If
> not, can anyone suggest another easy-to-use (but featureful) FTP
> server that supports encrypted data? (I guess if there's nothing else
> out there, I'll resort to SFTP, which sucks since it has nothing in
> terms of features.)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>


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