SSH File Transfer Protocol (sometimes called Secure File Transfer Protocol or SFTP) is a network protocol that provides file transfer and manipulation functionality over any reliable data stream. It is typically used with version two of the protocol (TCP port 22) to provide secure file transfer, but is intended to be usable with other protocols as well.

The protocol itself does not provide authentication and security; it expects the underlying protocol to secure this. SFTP is most often used as subsystem of SSH protocol version 2 implementations, having been designed by the same working group. However, it is possible to run it over SSH-1 (and some implementations support this) or other data streams. Running SFTP server over SSH-1 is not platform independent as SSH-1 does not support the concept of subsystems. An SFTP client willing to connect to an SSH-1 server needs to know the path to the SFTP server binary on the server side.

We use both Key-Exchange and Password encryption including diffie-hellman / group, 3DES, and MD5.

When you first connect the service it will ask you to download the key, once you have done that you will not need to exchange keys again.

You can use any standard File Transfer program however, we recommend File-Zilla which is free. Available here for Windows, Linux, and Mac: http://filezilla-project.org/download.php

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