FTPSBlackbox .NET - In-house

What's new in SecureBlackbox FTP/FTPS client 9.0 :

• Significant enhancements have been made, including file and multi-file operations, ListDirectory method, methods for checking file and directory existence and more

FTPSBlackbox package of SecureBlackbox
FTPS is a secure way to access file systems, located across the network. Based on industry-standard FTP (RFC 959) protocol, FTPS (RFC 2228) works over encrypted SSL or TLS connection. It provides an API to create, read and write files, create, delete and enumerate directories.

Since FTPS is built on top of SSL/TLS connection, FTPSBlackbox includes components for generic SSL/TLS transport.

Unlike symmetric encryption, securing communications with SSL/TLS doesn't require that the sides know the shared secret (password/encryption key). Also, the public key security (PKI) lets each side examine authenticity of the other side and prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.

Another benefit of SSL/TLS is that PKI infrastructure is a widely-used technology, so implementation and maintenance of SSL/TLS-based solutions are quite simple tasks. For certificate creation, management and validation FTPSBlackbox uses PKIBlackbox, base functions of which are included with FTPSBlackbox package.

FTPSBlackbox was designed to be easy-to-use component which operates in blocking (synchronous) mode.

FTPSBlackbox has been tested and found compatible with various FTP and FTPS servers and SSL/TLS implementations.

FTPSBlackbox does not use CryptoAPI, OpenSSL or other third-party encryption library.

FTPSBlackbox is offered as an individual package and as a part of Professional, Standard, Transports and SSLBlackbox packages.

FTPSBlackbox Feature list
Client-side FTP / FTPS protocol implementation offers the following FTP and FTPS features:

• client-side support for FTP and FTP-over-SSL (FTPS) protocols;
• support for explicit and implicit TLS;
• compression (MODE Z) support;
• MLST command processing for easy parsing of directory listings;
• support for files over 4 Gb;
• custom commands;
• transfer resumption and partial transfers;
• file and directory commands (create and delete directories, rename files etc.);
• support for SOCKS and HTTP CONNECT (web tunneling) proxies;
• support for FTP proxies;
• active and passive mode with optional adjustment of the server address in passive mode;
• flexible support for client-side authentication in FTPS;
• bandwidth control;
• IPv6 support;
• DNSSEC support

SSL/TLS Protocol implementation contains the following features, common to both client-side and server-side components:

• complete support for SSL 2, SSL 3, TLS 1.x versions of the protocol;
• client and server DTLS (Datagram TLS) protocol support which lets you secure your UDP communications;
• flexible support for client-side certificate authentication;
• user-controlled validation of certificates;
• built-in compression;
• optional resuming of SSL sessions;
• support for Cryptocards and USB Crypto Tokens;
• authentication using pre-shared key (passphrase);
• authentication using OpenPGP keys (requires OpenPGPBlackbox);
• standard and custom TLS extensions;
• data transfer using events/callbacks, i.e. possibility to secure not only socket-based, but also other types of data exchange;
• support for key length from 512 to 16384 bits;
• support for RSA, DSA and DH public key algorithms;
• support for ECC-based cipher suites;
• data encryption with Camellia, AES (128 to 256 bit), Triple DES (3DES), DES, ARCFOUR, RC2 algorithms;
• integrity checking using HMAC, SHA1 and MD5 algorithms;
• asynchronous operation mode which lets you easily build synchronous and asynchronous applications

PKI Infrastructure - besides FTPSBlackbox includes base functions of PKIBlackbox.

Available editions

FTPSBlackbox is available in several editions for various software platforms.

.NET edition. This edition of FTPSBlackbox includes pure managed components, carefully optimized to achieve maximum performance, comparable to native processor code.
.NET edition requires .NET Framework 4.0, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 1.1, Silverlight 4, Silverlight 3, Mono 2.0, Mono 1.0, .NET CF (Compact Framework) 3.5, .NET CF 2.0, .NET CF 1.0.
.NET edition can be used on ASP.NET server systems, Windows desktop systems, Windows Mobile PDAs, Silverlight-enabled browsers, on Linux and MacOS X systems with Mono installed.

VCL edition. Blazingly fast native Delphi (Pascal) components for building native Windows and Linux applications. Usable with Delphi, C++ Builder or FreePascal (Win32 or x64, Linux/x86 or Linux/x64).
VCL edition works on any computer with Windows 98 and later or with Linux kernel 2.4 and later.

ActiveX/DLL edition. ActiveX controls and Dynamically-Linked Libraries are useable with virtually any development tool, which supports ActiveX or DLLs. This includes ASP web pages, Visual Basic 6 applications, native C/C++ applications for Windows, shell and server-side scripts.
ActiveX/DLL edition works on any computer with Windows 98 and later.

Support requests from customers with Priority support are served ahead of requests from regular customers and evaluation version users.