On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> wrote:
> I have to keep harping on this. The looming EU regulation on hacking is a > potentially huge legal liability. You cannot defend yourself in court by > arguing that you hire the best people. You can defend yourself only by > showing that the hacked data was encrypted. > I think that more than encryption would need to be shown. I'm thinking that the algorithm must be "robust" (or whatever word the crypto people use). If not, then let's just use ROT13. Oh, and you'd best be sure that the passphrase, digital cert, etc is properly secured. It doesn't do any good to encrypt a file and have the decryption key be easily found. > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > robin...@sce.com > > -- UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
