On Wednesday, 07/11/2007 at 12:43 EDT, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hunh. A transparent passthrough compression/encryption facility. > > Gee, that sounds like a good idea. > > It also sounds *suspiciously similar* to an extant IBM z/VM component. > > Admittedly, one that I think should be performed in a CMS app rather > than by a detour through an install-it-yourself Linux guest, but, > well, we're all aware of each others' views on that. Down, boy! Down! [I brandish a rolled-up newspaper in your general direction] :-) There are issues surrounding compression and encryption that have nothing to do with secure network transmission provided by the SSL server. What to do if you want to encrypt a dump on a tape for archive purposes and you don't have an encrypting tape drive? Until you said it, I hadn't given any thought to using the SSL server in new and creative ways to accomplish file encryption. Hmmm...... veeeeerrrry interesting. ;-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
