[dmm]

Those patches are old. My understanding is that the parts that are reasonable have been implemented and the parts that aren't (plaintext modes) have been ignored.

If you need to transfer large files around a lot use what the supercomputing centers use: GridFTP.

[lotsofmangos]

I'd never even heard of GridFtp before. It looks pretty good. I've taken to not installing ftp on servers at all and just using ssh, but this might make me think again.