http://blogs.msdn.com/vijaysk/archive/2009/07/08/iis-7-tip-11-you-can-restrict-ssl-to-only-the-control-channel-on-ftps.aspxThe File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has been around even before I was born :) It is a good protocol for transferring files across the network but has one major flaw. If you use authentication it sends the password in a Base64 encoded format over the wire.en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)