[NTLUG:Discuss] OT? security comparsion

[Greg Edwards]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Terry:
> 
> Using your analogy, I think it is like putting the key in an envelope,
> writing the word "Key" on the outside, and leaving it on top of the doormat.
> 
> Anyone that is looking will have full access to whatever you are sending.
> 
> If they are looking the in the first place, they have some mischeivious
> or malicious intent.
> 
> 	Neil 
> 

Don't be so quick to dismiss the value of SSL.  As well stated earlier, 
it's not SSL and the information transferred that hackers get.  They get 
it from the back end of systems they've broken into.  I don't know the 
percentages of which OS is cracked more often, but I'd think my luck guess 
of M$ being in the 95%+ would be right ;)

If you do insist on sending zip files encrypt them first.  Let your 
receivers know off line what the encryption key is and they'll be able to 
decrypt and uncompress with "unzip".  Your unzip does have to have the 
encryption option compiled in.

-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc. - Software Engineering Services
http://www.nas-inet.com