It might be difficult to satisfy timing constraints using TCP/IP to connect Hercules to some real hardware.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Rick Troth <tro...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2024 8:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)? On 1/13/24 11:28, Steve Estle wrote: > I know this seems innocuous, but we'd like to encrypt as much as possible in > our environment ... Forgive my tone, Steve. And please don't take this as directed at you, but at the broader industry, especially at "seatback magazine management". Many people use encryption like it was fairy dust: just sprinkle it liberally and everything is safer. That's not true, and the reasons are not immediately obvious. But the problem starts with the requirement to /decrypt/ before data can actually be used. And if *everything* is encrypted then there are more cases where things are getting decrypted. I've been using encryption, both professionally and personally, for more than three decades, and I find that I'm getting increasingly selective day by day. I feel your pain about certain data sets being difficult. And don't get me started about seed keys needed for whole disk situations. -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
