I would like to turn off password authentication for SSH to my server, using keys instead. I don't see an option in Filezilla to use a public key though: is this not a feature of the SFTP spec?

SFTP is an entirely different protocol, altogether, basically doing file copy directly over the SSH protocol, using a single socket. FTPS is literally plain old FTP wrapped in TLS (with all the ...

Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is a network protocol for securely accessing, transferring and managing large files and sensitive data. SFTP helps enterprises meet regulations for file transfer ...