Advice for computer user

Total Com­man­der pro­gram users who want to con­nect to var­i­ous servers and want a secureFTP con­nec­tion can use SSL (Secure Socket Layer). SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a Web pro­to­col devel­oped by Netscape that allow trans­mis­sion of pri­vate doc­u­ments safely on the Internet. SSL data encryp­tion use a cryp­to­graphic pro­to­col with two keys - one pub­lic and one pri­vate key known only by the recip­i­ent of the message.

Users who attempt to con­nect via FTP client appli­ca­tion Total Commander, using the SSL/TLS fea­ture will usu­ally receive the fol­low­ing error message:

 Just to save some searches: Want to use SSL fea­ture in FTP client of Total Com­man­der you must have in same direc­tory with Total Com­man­der  two SSL dlls.

Chris­t­ian Ghisler made pub­lic the method and reasons:

“Here is some infor­ma­tion on how to use the ssl/tls fea­ture. Because of the Swiss crypto export laws, I can­not include the openssl dlls in the install package.

1. Get the com­piled OpenSSL pack­age from the LibCurl library:
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
Please scroll down to the sec­tion named “Win32 — Generic“
and down­load the fol­low­ing pack­age (or a newer one):
Win32 2000/XP 7.19.0 libcurl SSL enabled Gün­ter Knauf 1.54 MB

2. Copy the two dlls libssl32.dll and libeay32.dll from the “bin” sub­dir of the archive to the Total Com­man­der direc­tory.
3. Now you can make con­nec­tions with pre­fix ftps:// and https://

There will appear a red open locker for con­nec­tions because the root cer­tifi­cates are miss­ing. To get the root cer­tifi­cates of Verisign, Thawte etc, do the fol­low­ing:
1. Start Inter­net Explorer and open its con­fig­u­ra­tion dia­log
2. Go to the page “Con­tent“
3. Click on “Cer­tifi­cates“
4. Go to the last page “Trusted root cer­tifi­cate author­i­ties“
5. Select all cer­tifi­cates
6. Click on“Export“
7. As name, enter: rootcerts
8. Con­firm with Next/OK. This cre­ates a file rootcerts.p7b
9. Issue the fol­low­ing two com­mands to con­vert to openssl format:

openssl pkcs7 –inform DER –in rootcerts.p7b –print_certs –out unfiltered.pem
openssl x509 –in unfiltered.pem –out rootcert.pem

10. Put the file rootcert.pem in the Total Com­man­der direc­tory
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Author of Total Com­man­der
http://www.ghisler.com”

This is from ofi­cial forum, but first, check if your host allows SSL con­nec­tions because there are many hosts that do not allow FTP connections through SSL.

by Cave Radio Uncut