Good File Transfer Protocol software can be hard to come by. Luckily there are some very good programs out there for those of us who like to throw data around using FTP. This is where WinSCP comes in– it handles all of your FTP needs perfectly, offering secure copy, secure FTP, and regular plain vanilla FTP (not recommended). With secure FTP, your sessions are encrypted, offering protection from packet sniffers and whatnot. WinSCP supports multiple sessions, saved configurations, handles the SSH host keys just fine, and integrates with the desktop so you can just drag and drop stuff in there all day.

And it’s free. It’s one of those programs that’s just solid all around.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, August 27th, 2009 at 11:33 am by Nick Staples and is filed under Technology & Tool Thursday. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.