Does winscp3 have CRC checking

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Does winscp3 have CRC checking

How does WinSCP3 guarantee that the file being transferred in not corrupted while in flight. Is there integrity checking that is occurring on the fly?

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Re: Does winscp3 have CRC checking

SSH protocol have built in integrity checking, hence file cannot be corrupted while transferred.

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SFTP checksum bug fix?

I noticed the following bug fix in the history:

Bug fix: Checksum calculation with SFTP protocol was not working at all.

Two questions:
1. When running in batch mode am I use SCP SFTP mode?
2. Was this error present in 3.8.2?

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Re: SFTP checksum bug fix?

tkquestion wrote:

Bug fix: Checksum calculation with SFTP protocol was not working at all.
This is unrelated to your first question. There was a bug in file checksum calculation that can be requested from Properties dialog. This has nothing to do with SSH session integrity checking.

1. When running in batch mode am I use SCP SFTP mode?
Depends on your settings.

2. Was this error present in 3.8.2?
The feature mentioned above was added in 4.0 beta.

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CRC vs SSH

While SSH guarantees that all packages sent are accurate, it does not guarantee that the entire file was sent. That's why you still need CRC.

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Re: CRC vs SSH

Fishbalm wrote:

While SSH guarantees that all packages sent are accurate, it does not guarantee that the entire file was sent. That's why you still need CRC.

How can I set the WINSCP to make it always CRC checking and in case of some error - automaticaly repeat the file transfer? In my case I have to repeat manually many (5 - 10) times to make the transfer error-free.

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Re: CRC vs SSH

Piasecki wrote:

How can I set the WINSCP to make it always CRC checking and in case of some error - automaticaly repeat the file transfer? In my case I have to repeat manually many (5 - 10) times to make the transfer error-free.
WinSCP does not have such feature.
It's tracked here:
https://winscp.net/tracker/374
As mentioned there, even if this was implemented, majority of servers won't support it anyway.

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