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Old 06-02-2009, 09:57 AM   #1
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SFTP - How Secure from ISP or other people in between source and destination


How secure is sftp in regards to what an ISP can see or what people in between source and destination can see?
 
Old 06-02-2009, 12:40 PM   #2
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They can't see any of it, unless they were to be performing some obscenely nasty MITM attack on you, which they'd never get away with in any decent country.
 
  


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