Protection mechanisms against data manipulation

During communications with openFT partners, openFT as of V8.1 implicitly checks the integrity of the transferred data. For requests with unencrypted file content, the integrity of the request description data is checked. For requests with encryption, the integrity of the transferred file content is also checked. If an error is detected, restartable requests attempt a new transfer. Non-restartable requests are aborted.

In this way it is possible to detect and prevent malicious manipulations of the transferred data (e.g. in insecure public networks such as the Internet).

Errors on the physical transfer channels are identified and rectified by the communication system itself. No data integrity check at openFT level is required for this.