>
>Transporting media in a secure manner over the Web is inherently
>problematic, but as long as we're moving media around in a MetaCard stack it
>raises an interesting question:
>
>Why not put media (text, images) in a MetaCard stack as a wrapper, then set
>a password for it for transport?
The password only prevents the stack from being modified but it's still functional.
You would have to put data in scripts.
There's a "md5Digest()" function for encryption but some expert would have to figure
out
how to decrypt the encrypted data.
>
>It would seem like such a scheme would provide a basic level of encryption
>while adding very little to the size of the media. And using MC's built-in
>GZip support, such files would likely be smaller than the native file
>itself.
>
>So here's the question: Just how secure is MC's encryption compared to,
>say, PGP or other popular methods? Would it be considered suitable for
>transporting medical record data?
>
>--
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Media Corporation
> Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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