Its feature mix is more professional and upscale than FileZilla's and includes IPv6, Universal Plug and Play support, FXP (which lets you transfer from one FTP server to another without having to download to your machine and then re-upload), verified transfers using XCRC and other verification protocols, and secure connections over TLS/SSL. ()Ī good commercial client is SmartFTP from SmartSoft. It's also remarkably fault-tolerant: If your network dies in the middle of a long operation (whether it involves one file or many), you can pick up where you left off at the click of a button.įileZilla: solid, dependable, powerful. It gets things done, has all the features I want, and has dealt with any number of long and grueling upload/download jobs without gagging.

My favorite is Tim Kosse's open-source FileZilla, currently at revision 2.2.32, but with a heavily rewritten 3.0 beta version available for public test. (Note that you'll need administrative access on the target computer for this to work.)Ī good FTP client is another of those gotta-have-it tools in this day and age, and there are so many of them to choose from it can get a little dizzying. You can even set up a USB thumb drive or an external hard drive with its own copy of TrueCrypt if you want to take your encrypted files with you to a machine that doesn't have TrueCrypt installed. The encryption algorithms it uses are fully documented industry standards, such as Triple DES and Blowfish, so the encryption itself is not going to be a weakness. Most of the program's functions (like creating encrypted volumes) are wizard-driven and easy to use, even if you know nothing about encryption. I prefer the TrueCrypt Foundation's TrueCrypt, a free and open-source encryption system that can create encrypted volumes out of a file on disk or a physical drive (such as a USB drive).

Windows has encryption functionality built into the file system, but it's a) not very robust and b) a proprietary part of the NTFS file system. Sometimes there are things you'd just rather keep to yourself.

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