It's very easy to get stuck inside the developer bubble, where 'archaic' means 'something that was state-of-the-art four years ago (or in the web/design world, 3.5 minutes ago)'.
SFTP is a nice technology which I make quite frequent use of in my job and at home. The idea that I plug in my Yubikey, provide a passphrase to unlock the key, authenticate to my server which that's got a verifiable certificate installed, and the private key never leaves my Yubikey is about as state-of-the-art as I could ever ask for security-wise.
Granted, precisely how the SFTP site is secured isn't specified and there's plenty of ways to do that wrong, but as a technology, it's always impressed me how seamlessly it works once it's setup.
It's very easy to get stuck inside the developer bubble, where 'archaic' means 'something that was state-of-the-art four years ago (or in the web/design world, 3.5 minutes ago)'.
SFTP is a nice technology which I make quite frequent use of in my job and at home. The idea that I plug in my Yubikey, provide a passphrase to unlock the key, authenticate to my server which that's got a verifiable certificate installed, and the private key never leaves my Yubikey is about as state-of-the-art as I could ever ask for security-wise.
Granted, precisely how the SFTP site is secured isn't specified and there's plenty of ways to do that wrong, but as a technology, it's always impressed me how seamlessly it works once it's setup.