From: Ruben Safir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How do you prevent leakage of private information? Does it have > cryptography build into the mail? >
Mailman does not itself support encryption, at least not in the versions that I used in my office ten years ago. Someone else will answer whether there are more robust capabilities now. However, 1. MailMan has been used behind the VA's firewall... actually over their secure network. I have used it primarily for intraoffice communications in my practice. Crude, simple, text-only messaging can be VERY useful there.... and only as secure as the network... as is the CPRS GUI. BUT: 2. Having access to the MailMan code makes encryption available with relatively simple hooks into the operation MUMPS code. 2b. In 1994 I was using MailMan to send text and images (patient photos) between home and the office and Mercer University with PGP encryption and PGP ASCII wrapper for the images... also UUENCODE/DECODE. It all worked because the MailMan source code is there to be seen and played with... a great way to learn, IMHO. jlz PS: 1994 was a looong time ago in Moore's-law years. Patient privacy and the need for security of medical records predates HIPPA and all the foaming at the mouth it generates. "Look alive, here comes a buzzard." -- Pogo ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
