in reply to How secure is XOR encryption?

XOR is not really encryption at all, and you should assume it gives no protection whatsoever. FTP is not secure. SFTP (FTP over an SSL connection) is secure enough for business needs (i.e. it's as good as the encryption that commerce sites and bank sites use). There's probably and SFTP module for VB somewhere. Go with that.

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Re: (2) How secure is XOR encryption?
by talexb (Chancellor) on Apr 24, 2002 at 18:46 UTC
    Thanks for your comments. I had a look at SFTP then went sideways and had a look at scp which I've used between Unix systems. I finally ended up (thanks Google) looking at this page which provides the PuTTY Secure Copy client. I think that's the way to go, so I'm going to try that out.

    --t. alex

    "Nyahhh (munch, munch) What's up, Doc?" --Bugs Bunny

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      The putty stuff works fine, although I'm not sure it can be automated with VB. I also use the scp client that comes with cugwin on Windows and it works well.
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        Glad to hear that putty works well for you. I am having the folloing problem .. any thoughts? 
        (DOS Prompt)>psftp -v -pw xyz123 talexb@foobar.com
Looking up host "foobar.com"
Connecting to 209.1.1.1 port 22
Server version: SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.1p1
We claim version: SSH-2.0-PuTTY-Snapshot-2002-04-24
Using SSH protocol version 2
Doing Diffie-Hellman group exchange
Doing Diffie-Hellman key exchange
Host key fingerprint is:
ssh-rsa 1024 fa:d9:0c:0b:7d:41:96:81:57:a0:ca:7a:c5:29:f4:1f
Using username "talexb".
Keyboard-interactive authentication refused
Sent password
Access granted
Opened channel for session
Primary command failed; attempting fallback
Started a shell/command
Connected to pyyl.pair.com
bash: exec: sftp-server: not found
Server sent command exit status 127
Fatal: unable to initialise SFTP: could not connect

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        It looks like psftp is trying to set up an interactive session (not what I expected) then did a fall-back and failed to do that do. Help!

        --t. alex

        "Nyahhh (munch, munch) What's up, Doc?" --Bugs Bunny

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