Trustworthy sFTP client

[OldProfessor]

I'm looking for an sFTP client that I can trust with a stored password. I learned that ES File Explorer comes from China, so that rules it out. Also, it was unable to find the server when the address is a dotted quad.

At a deeper level of paranoia, can any Android application be trusted to protect a secret (such as a password) should the fall into the hands of a sufficiently skilled and resourced adversary?

 

[EarlyMon]

I'm looking for an sFTP client that I can trust with a stored password. I learned that ES File Explorer comes from China, so that rules it out. Also, it was unable to find the server when the address is a dotted quad.

At a deeper level of paranoia, can any Android application be trusted to protect a secret (such as a password) should the fall into the hands of a sufficiently skilled and resourced adversary?

I'd say that the answer to the second part would be no for Android or any platform. Even if they can't crack an encrypted password, physical access to the device with a stored password = unfettered access to your storage.

That said -

Check out "Turbo FTP client & SFTP client"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=turbo.client

There's a community you can join to get in-depth answers -

https://plus.google.com/communities/106528514375642841563

As well as dev support at XDA -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34879968#post34879968

That said, I've used another client since long before that - "AndFTP (your FTP client)"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lysesoft.andftp

And that's pretty much what I'll use for sftp.

Never guess where your apps are connecting, test them first with dummy accounts -

Check out "Network Connections"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antispycell.connmonitor

I can't recommend that that enough.