Comparison of file transfer protocols
Overview

Comparison of file transfer protocols

Section Title: Overview
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Protocol	Original author	First published	Protocol suite	Standard	Refs

Full name	Abbreviation

BitTorrent	BT	Bram Cohen	2001	N/A	No

CCSDS File Delivery Protocol	CFDP	N/A	ISO 17355:2007 CCSDS 727.0-B-4

Cross File Transfer	CFT	N/A	No

EForward	N/A	No

Ether File Transfer Protocol	EFTP	John Shoch	1979	PARC Universal Packet	No

Fast and Secure Protocol	FASP	Ying Xu, Michelle Munson, Serban Simu	2007	N/A	No

File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport	FLUTE	Internet Society	2004	N/A	RFC 6726

File Service Protocol	FSP	Wen-King Su	1991	N/A	No

File Transfer Access and Management	FTAM	ISO 8571-4:1988

File Transfer Protocol	FTP	Abhay Bhushan	1971	Internet protocol suite	RFC 959

FTP Secure	FTPS	Internet Society	1997	Internet protocol suite	RFC 2228, 4217

HTTP Secure	HTTPS	Taher Elgamal et al.	1995	Internet protocol suite	RFC 7230

Host Unix Linkage File Transfer	HULFT	?	?	N/A	No

Hypertext Transfer Protocol	HTTP	Tim Berners-Lee et al.	1991	Internet protocol suite	RFC 7231

Micro Transport Protocol	µTP	Ludvig Strigeus, Greg Hazel, Stanislav Shalunov, Arvid Norberg, Bram Cohen	2007	N/A	No

Multicast Dissemination Protocol	MDP	No

Multicast File Transfer Protocol	MFTP	C. Kenneth Miller et al.	1995	N/A	IETF Draft (1998)

NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol	NORM	RFC 5740

Odette File Transfer Protocol	OFTP	Organisation for Data Exchange by Tele Transmission in Europe	1986	X.25	RFC 6726

Odette File Transfer Protocol 2	OFTP2	Organisation for Data Exchange by Tele Transmission in Europe	2007	X.25, Internet protocol suite	RFC 5024 (V1.3)

Reliable Blast UDP	RBUDP	Eric He et al.	2002	N/A	No

Remote copy	rcp	?	1982	Internet protocol suite	No

Secure copy	SCP	Tatu Ylonen	?	Secure Shell	No

Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol	S-HTTP	IETF Web Transaction Security Working Group	1999	N/A	RFC 2660

Simple Asynchronous File Transfer	SAFT	Ulli Horlacher	1995	N/A	No

Simple File Transfer Protocol	SFTP	Mark K. Lottor	1984	N/A	RFC 913

SSH file transfer protocol	SFTP	Tatu Ylönen	c. 1997	Secure Shell	IETF Draft (2006)

T.127	T.127	?	?	N/A	ITU T.127

Trivial File Transfer Protocol	TFTP	Noel Chiappa	1980	Internet protocol suite	RFC 1350

Tsunami UDP Protocol	Tsunami	Mark Meiss et al.	2002	N/A	No

UDP-based Data Transfer Protocol	UDT	Yunhong Gu	2004	N/A	No

UDP-based File Transfer Protocol	UFTP	Dennis Bush	2001	N/A	No

Unix-to-Unix Copy	UUCP	Mike Lesk	1979	N/A	No

Warp Speed Data Transfer	WDT	Laurent Demailly et al.	2015	N/A	No

Sentence(s)

The FTP was standardized in RFC 959.

final_sentence: The FTP was standardized in RFC 959.