SFTP vs FTP over SSL (TLS)

I am currently using the sftp server that comes with OpenSSH to transfer files to my server (I don't want plain text passwords!), however I'd like to have an anonymous FTP area, and more speed. vsftpd is very nice, and it stupports, ssl, will ssl_enable be the same as sftp? or will it be something different? Are they equally secure? Will I need a special client to connect to an SSL'd FTP connection?

 

 

 

 

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