Are you perhaps referring to FTPS, which is FTP with SSL/TLS added? SFTP is very, very different from FTP. Note that SFTP is not a protocol for security transp

Are you perhaps referring to FTPS, which is FTP with SSL/TLS added? SFTP is very, very different from FTP. Note that SFTP is not a protocol for security transport / authentication. It doesn't do that. It assumes that you've already secured/authorized the channel with SSH. See section 1 of the RFC. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-13#section-1 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filex... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol