I've found lots of documentation on setting up apache with SLL, but nothing with setting up a ftp server and SSL. It would be extremely helpful if you could post some replies with ideas etc. What I've ...
If you're using sftp, you're connecting to a ssh server, not a ftp server. As for your original question, yes you can have encrypted ftp. E.g. vsftpd support TLS. Of course you need a client with TLS ...