Security – Setting up PGP FTP

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I have a situation where I need to setup a FTP server with PGP encryption. Currently I use FileZilla w/ SSL, but in this case we are required to use PGP.

Any recommended products/procedures from those who have done this? Doesn't look like FileZilla natively supports PGP.

Thanks!

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PGP is not an in-transit encryption technology as SSL/TLS is. You'll most likely need to use PGP to encrypt the files, transfer them, and then decrypt on the other side. This process could be easily automated if that is desirable.

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Check your Firewall settings on the host and make sure Port 21 is open

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Cron is not hard to learn at all. First write a shell script to perform the ftp, or simply make the ftp command call and get that working. Next setup the cron job to run.

*     *     *   *    *        command to be executed
-     -     -   -    -
|     |     |   |    |
|     |     |   |    +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
|     |     |   +------- month (1 - 12)
|     |     +--------- day of        month (1 - 31)
|     +----------- hour (0 - 23)
+------------- min (0 - 59)

There are plenty of cron references and tight deadline or not this is trivial to learn.

Another alternative, though this will take some time to learn and configure is rsync. We use this at work to backup web servers and sql databases. We have a backup server with public key pairs setup on all our web servers, and each night we have a cron execute which ssh's to the web servers, runs a few commands, packages up the backup and runs rsync to push back.

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