>One of our users has become interested in encrypting a job's sysout before >sending it to a email address. We currently use XMITPIP to package the data for >emailing the data. This is only an interest at this point, there is no money to >spend on fancy products with components on both z/OS and WinXP. I have been >asked to see if there is some free programs, one for z/OS to encrypt the data >(DES, 3DES, AES have been mentioned), and one for the WinXP workstation to >decrypt the data file. >Does anyone have some pointers to such programs?
OK, I think I've got a simple answer for you. The sendmail program, which comes with z/OS, does support SMTP transmission via an SSL or TLS encrypted link. Most receiving servers should support an encrypted SMTP e-mail transport. (z/OS sendmail has supported SSL/TLS for some time now.) z/OS sendmail uses System SSL to get the job done, and that's good because that should allow you to take advantage of any crypto hardware you might have installed. I think that'll get the job done for you unless I'm missing something in your question. Although the "no money" part in your question bothers me in the abstract. What would it cost if someone unauthorized got access to these data? If the answer is zero, don't bother encrypting it. If the answer is non-zero, why isn't there money available? (Encryption is like insurance, after all. If you can't afford insurance then it's your risk to bear, and if you're unlucky you could be out of business or in prison or both.) BUT I DIGRESS :-)... In this case there probably is a "no money" solution, at least for the e-mail transport hop. Now, what happens when there's the next Windows worm and these data -- now sitting on the Windows system -- get transmitted by the worm to St. Petersburg, Russia (to pick a random city) where someone then enjoys several high credit card limits? And now we've stumbled into potentially the next part of your more holistic problem. Or if the data are in an Excel spreadsheet and someone steals that notebook computer from an airport, guess what? It's compromised. Have I got you thinking yet? :-) - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Software Architect, Enterprise Transformation IBM Americas zSeries/z9 Software NEW Phone: +1 312 529 1612 (eff. 1 Sept. 2005) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP key available.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
