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		awda on April 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How ACH works: A developer perspective I don't know anything about ACH, but the author could be referring to FTP-over-TLS ("FTPS") or SFTP (unrelated protocol over SSH), both of which use the initials FTP but aren't as wholly insecure as vanilla FTP.

edawerd on April 23, 2014 | [–]

Our bank uses SFTP, which is really just SSH (nothing to do with FTP).

wiredfool on April 23, 2014 | [–]

I've seen https and scp as well. I'm not sure I've seen plain vanilla ftp in years, and certainly not without pgp encrypting the files first.

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