<article lang="&language;" id="sftp"> <title >sftp</title> <articleinfo> <authorgroup> <author >&Ferdinand.Gassauer; &Ferdinand.Gassauer.mail;</author> <othercredit role="translator" ><firstname >Malcolm</firstname ><surname >Hunter</surname ><affiliation ><address ><email >malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email ></address ></affiliation ><contrib >Conversion to British English</contrib ></othercredit > </authorgroup> </articleinfo> <para ><acronym >SFTP</acronym > is a Secure file transfer protocol. <command >sftp</command > is an interactive file transfer program, similar to ftp, but it performs all operations over an encrypted <command >ssh</command > transport. It may use many of the features of <command >ssh</command >, including public key authentication and compression.</para> <para >See the manual: <ulink url="man:/sftp" >sftp</ulink >. </para> </article>