[NTLUG:Discuss] OT? security comparsion

[Neil Aggarwal]

Terry:

How does that add security?  
Someone can just unzip the file.

	Neil 

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From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Terry
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 6:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] OT? security comparsion

On 11/15/05, m m <llliiilll at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> A lot of security experts say sending important on the internet is not a
> good idea.
> It is true. But a lot of advantages make people willing to send importand
> information over internet.
> Pay by credit card online is one of the example.

Probably the easiest measure you can take is just write to a text file
and then compress it and send as attached .gz or .zip  file.   I
usually use .zip
i.e.
   edit file.txt
   [my sentitive information, passwords etc.]
   zip file.zip file.txt

Send file.zip as attached file.

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