One of my responses to this thread dealt with encryption of the content for Data/Message transfers. That got me to look a bit more at the existing UFT/SIFT process for transfer of data files over tcp/ip. I currently use this to transfer files between a legacy and an IFL system. I was also going to explore having this service opened up between our home system and our recovery system during our next disaster recovery test. There is no consideration for content encryption in RFC1440 SIFT/UFT. In looking further with Google, I found the SAFT (Simple Asynchronous File Transfer) implementation on Debian. It includes sendfile, sendmsg, receive commands and a sendfiled daemon. This is even available on s390 Debian. It includes the capability for compression and encryption with PGP public/private keys.
I am fairly sure that our network management will not allow the SIFT/UFT service to be open to the outside without some capabiity for data content encryption. Has anyone modified SIFT/UFTD to include data compression/encryption (not necessarily public/private key encryption)? Has anyone looked at porting SAFT to z/VM or z/OS ? /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com
