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Dear users,
we are very keen to make SecureBridge better. We invite you to tell us what you think. Let us know if you have any comments or suggestions about SecureBridge. We encourage you to provide us with feedback using this page.

Devart development team
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I love SecureBridge, outstanding product.

Two things I would like to see:

1. Full Lazarus support(win32/64/OSX/Linux). Lazarus 1.0 is right around the corner and the latest RC1 release is outstanding.

2. Modify the current SSH server components to include support for SFTP. The SFTP client support is outstanding, but we really need the ability to write servers as well.

We are glad to see that you are satisfied with SecureBridge.
1. We will add Lazarus support to the next SecureBridge version.
2. We plan to add functionality that implements SFTP server to SecureBridge, but we cannot provide any timeframe.

Good to hear.
Please don't wait for Delphi to get Linux support as it's not going to
happen for at least another year.

Lazarus is the way to go for Linux support right now. I am actually trying to do all my
new projects for win32/64 in Lazarus as well.
Barring 3rd party library support I can create the same apps in Lazarus as Delphi.

oh, forgot to add that if and when you guys do a Lazarus port, please make sure it works
without the LCL as a true non visual component so it will work on linux servers that
do not have a X server installed. Very important when you need to be able
to easily deploy your daemon on the production server.

Now, you can vote for a new SecureBridge functionality at our UserVoice page: http://devart.uservoice.com/forums/174370-securebridge

Hi

I am really struggling to understand how to deploy the SSH Server onto a Windows Server and then get an sFTP client to connect to this from a different machine on the network - all I get is the sFTP client times out. I have not even attempted to connect from a remote machine.

I would be very grateful if there were a more detailed, step by step deployment section in the help files, for example I am currently confused by do I generate public/private keys on the server or client? What is the difference between DSA and RSA? - which should I use. Whilst you cannot cover all firewalls, a few notes on how to open ports on say the Windows firewall would be appreciated.

I am sure your product ticks all the boxes for functionality etc. but for me, as a security novice, it lacks a few more basic instructions on how to deploy and configure the various, necessary, settings.

p.s. cannot find any instructions, demos etc. on the sFTPServer - I presume I am doing the correct thing using the SSH Server?

Best Wishes

Philip L Jackson

Thank you for the interest in our product.

You can find the detailed information about configuring and starting SSH server in the "Step-by-step tutorial" topic of the SecureBridge help ( http://www.devart.com/sbridge/docs/serv ... ration.htm ).

RSA and DSA are asymmetric encryption algorithms, and you can find the information about them in a proper documentation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Si ... _Algorithm, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3447.html )
Note: RSA is a more usable asymmetric encryption system than DSA, and it is the only acceptable encryption algorithm for tasks, in which high level of data protection is required.

Information about Windows firewall can be found in MSDN. Working with firewall doesn't depend on SecureBridge functionality.

You can see how to start SSH server (together with SFTP server) in the SSHServer demo of SecureBridge.
To run SSH server perform the following steps:
- compile the SSHServerService project;
- install it calling the following command: SSHServerService.exe /install
- compile the SSHServer project;
- run this application, create a new user for authentication or use created user with username test and password test;
- start the service by pressing the "Start server" button.