John,
one package to check out would be GNU Privacy Guard
(http://www.gnupg.org/). It is free software, so low cost. For support
you would need to contract someone like RedHat though. I have no
personal experience with it, but it does come with full source, so
there should be few problems getting it to do what you want. One thing
to watch out for is that not all encryption/decryption algorithms are
supported because some algorithms have licensing fees.
rgds,
Erlend Nagel.
"Chalmers, John" wrote:
>
> John,
>
> We discussed this earlier this week in a phone call but to recap, we have
> about 30 trading partners that we exchange data with using PGP encryption.
> That is more than half of our trading partners that we exchange data with
> using FTP. PGP has worked very well for us. Recent price increases in the
> PGP software($5,000 for a two year license vs. $150 to purchase) has made
> using PGP encryption less attractive. The higher price only applies if you
> want to use PGP in an automated fashion(scripted), but very few trading
> partners want to use PGP manually. We have researched using other
> encryption packages(Compress, Prime Factors, and others) and have found that
> they are more expensive than PGP. I'd be interested to know what lower
> cost encryption software packages are available.
>
> John Chalmers
> Electronic Commerce Services
> Voice (603) 245-4204; Fax(603) 245-5332
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 12:25 PM
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> > Subject: Market share for PGP
> >
> > The information I have be gathering on encryption seems to indicate the
> > PGP has
> > a very large share of the market. As you interact with your trading
> > partners
> > that want to do FTP, what percent of them are using PGP???
> >
> > Thanks for your input.
> > Jonathan
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