Thanks for the responses from Tom Ackenhusen, Nikola Milutinovic, Serge
Forget, Ann Cantelow, Jef HamLin, and Stephane Bortzmeyer. Jef HamLin even
has the same platform as I do.
The unanimous recommendation was for Gnu PGP (also known as GPG), available,
including documentation, at <
http://www.GnuPG.org/>.
My implementation of this will be slowed, as this is public-domain software,
and the IRS looks askance at this (see note below for fuller explanation).
Hugh
_______________________________________________________________________
Hugh Pritchard (Tier), 202-546-3066, cell 301-467-1712
D.C. Ofc of Corporation Counsel, Child Support Enforcement Division
650 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Suite 250, Washington, DC 20003
mailto:Hugh.Pritchard_at_DC.gov
Note: The IRS (U.S. Internal Revenue Service) makes available much data to
local and state Child Support Enforcement (CSE) agencies. The IRS thus
wants the CSE agencies to guard this data against unauthorized disclosure.
The IRS feels, and rightly so, IMHO, that downloading software from the 'Net
is a good way to allow Trojan Horses and other malware into your site. So
we have to jump through some hoops in order to obtain, for example, Perl and
the excellent Gnu software.
| -----Original Message-----
| From: tru64-unix-managers-owner_at_ornl.gov
| On Behalf Of Pritchard, Hugh (CSED)
| Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:18 AM
| To: 'Tru64 Managers' List (E-mail)'
| Subject: Best PGP implementation for 4.0F?
|
| We have a requirement to be able to FTP PGP-encoded files.
| Which commercial
| product or public-domain implementation do you managers
| suggest? We're
| going to be trading the public keys with another site in the
| D.C. government
| which does not run Unix platforms--that's whom we're going to
| be exchanging
| files with. The files coming to us may be in EBCDIC; I hope this is
| transparent to PGP (I can always use dd to convert the
| decoded files to
| ASCII).
|
| Platform is a DS-20 running 4.0F.
|
| Hugh
| ______________________________________________________________
| _________
| Hugh Pritchard (Tier), 202-546-3066, cell 301-467-1712
| D.C. Ofc of Corporation Counsel, Child Support Enforcement Division
| 650 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Suite 250, Washington, DC 20003
| mailto:Hugh.Pritchard_at_DC.gov
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