Re: Where is the scp protocol described?
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:16:15 +0100, Jacob Nevins wrote:
> Frank W. Steiner <steinfw@hotmail.com> writes:
>>But if there is no written specification then some particular
>>implementation of scp must be the reference one, right? Which one is it?
>
> There's no particular reason why everyone should have chosen the same
> "reference implementation" to reverse-engineer their SCP implementations
> from.
>
> I suspect that the de facto "reference implementation" will probably turn
> out to be Ylonen et al's original ssh (which I think invented SCP), or its
> derivative OpenSSH, simply because the source is widely available.
OK, thanks.
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