FTP user names and passwords -- secure or not?

[Mark Smith]

No. With FTP, the username and password are sent 'in the clear', ie,  
not encrypted in any way. UrlEncoding is simply a way of passing data  
around the 'net in (I think) 7 bit format, and is decoded in a  
standard way that anyone can use.

AFAIK, there's no way to encrypt passwords when using FTP.

Best,

Mark

On 12 Jun 2007, at 00:29, Mike Hughes wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> If using the URLEncode function on an FTP server password and then  
> connecting to that ftp server via a username and URLEncode-d  
> password (see msg below), is the password safe from a network sniffer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>