Encryption of your files with FTP

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:24 am

hmm, reading this chapter, when I upload encrypted html/script files, I think they are rendered useless for any html browser?
I must miss something!

How can this make sense?

jeffd · Post by **jeffd** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:17 pm

Files are encrypted so others can not view them. This way, if someone hacks your ftp account or circumvents web security, they won't be able to use the data. It's a secondary way to protect your data from being viewed by anyone except those who are supposed to use it.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:53 pm

jeffd wrote:Files are encrypted so others can not view them. This way, if someone hacks your ftp account or circumvents web security, they won't be able to use the data. It's a secondary way to protect your data from being viewed by anyone except those who are supposed to use it.

Ah, thanks, understood!