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paulddraper

SSL/TLS with other protocols have a lot of usage too.

SFTP/FTPS, SSH, SMTPS, etc.

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SSH is a cryptographic network protocol that doesn't use SSL/TLS.

My bad. I should have said SSL/TLS/SSH.

* SFTP/FTPS (SSH)

* SSH (SSH)

* SMTPS (SSL, TLS)

Still wrong. FTPS is vanilla FTP over TLS.

> Still wrong

You know that thing that gives security practitioners a bad reputation with engineers?

You're doing it.

As opposed to this, why not something more like "it's not uncommon for these two to be confused, but FTPS is FTP over TLS and isn't interchangeable with SFTP"?

Because it's longer? Pardon my foreign mind, but I do not understand, why you are offended by a simple short and valid statement nor why you are differentiating between "security pratitioners" and "engineers".

FTPS is FTP over TLS. However SSH and SFTP has nothing to do with TLS.

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