Re: Encryption Software products

2010-08-07 Thread Russell Witt
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu]on Behalf Of Meganen Naidoo Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Encryption Software products Hi everyone, One of our smaller clients, running on a Z9-BC, encryption requirements is for encryption of data at rest, encryption of tape data

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2010-07-29 Thread R.S.
functionality but a crypto card is required to use digital certificates, making it a very expensive option. Well... Are looking for something good or cheap? g On to my question then. I'm looking for advice, experiences and recommendations of mainframe encryption software that will address

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2010-07-29 Thread Hal Merritt
-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Meganen Naidoo Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Encryption Software products Hi everyone, One of our smaller clients, running on a Z9-BC, encryption requirements is for encryption of data at rest, encryption of tape data

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2010-07-29 Thread R.S.
Hal Merritt pisze: Actually, you might find that the crypto card is a less expensive option. I am told that software encryption/decryption is very costly in terms of CPU which is why IBM offered the 'specialty engine' (crypto card). That's absolutely untrue! Crypto cards are for secure key

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2010-07-29 Thread Robert Steiskal
] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Encryption Software products Hal Merritt pisze: Actually, you might find that the crypto card is a less expensive option. I am told that software encryption/decryption is very costly in terms of CPU

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2010-07-29 Thread Greg Boyd
encryption software that will address the clients encryption requirements without any need for crypto hardware. Kind Regards, Meganen Naidoo Solutions Architect -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

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2010-07-29 Thread Phil Smith
Hal Merritt wrote: Actually, you might find that the crypto card is a less expensive option. I am told that software encryption/decryption is very costly in terms of CPU which is why IBM offered the 'specialty engine' (crypto card). Not sure where so many get the bizarre idea that encryption

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2010-07-29 Thread Hal Merritt
...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Steiskal Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Encryption Software products Hal and RS, I thought you might be interested to know that many of our customers use the software based encryption and compression capabilities

Encryption Software products

2010-07-28 Thread Meganen Naidoo
but a crypto card is required to use digital certificates, making it a very expensive option. On to my question then. I'm looking for advice, experiences and recommendations of mainframe encryption software that will address the clients encryption requirements without any need for crypto hardware

Re: Encryption software?

2010-03-24 Thread Phil Smith III
Scott T. Harder wrote: I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but does this mean that all someone needs is your product and knowledge of the id used, in order to generate the key(s) to decrypt data encrypted with that id??? I am probably missing something here, but it sounds like there is something

Re: Encryption software?

2010-03-24 Thread Scott T. Harder
the best, Scott T. harder Mainframe Services, Inc. Naples, FL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Encryption software? Scott

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2010-03-24 Thread Phil Smith III
Scott T. Harder wrote: My interest is based on my involvement, not too long ago, with a commercial z/OS crypto product where I had been looking at creating a key server to be stored on z/OS (for all the usual and (I feel) proper reasons... RAS, etc.), providing the kind of unique and value-add

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2010-03-23 Thread Hal Merritt
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Encryption software? This topic is getting bounced around here and on the RACF-L as well, yet responses are scarce and sporadic. We in the hinterlands are looking for experiences with any of the major encrypting products

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2010-03-23 Thread Phil Smith III
Hal Merritt wrote: I am beginning to think that the silence of major players is meaningful. I can report one horror story: pay close attention to your key manangment process. The whole process to include entry, change, and propagation to a recovery site. That whole sand box looks to be very

Re: Encryption software?

2010-03-23 Thread Scott T. Harder
with that premise. All the best, Scott T. Harder Mainframe Services, Inc. Naples, FL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 12:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Encryption

Re: Encryption software?

2010-03-23 Thread Knutson, Sam
We heard via the rumor mill a last summer that EKM support is going away and that we will have to migrate to TKLM or a competitive product in the future. The spectre of this occurring quickly was raised and then dismissed by our IBM team. We are among customers who use EKM for backend tape

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2010-03-23 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 03/23/10 12:50, Knutson, Sam wrote: We heard via the rumor mill a last summer that EKM support is going away and that we will have to migrate to TKLM or a competitive product in the future. The spectre of this occurring quickly was raised and then dismissed by our IBM team. We are among

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2010-03-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Encryption software? We heard via the rumor mill a last summer that EKM support is going away

Re: Encryption software?

2010-03-23 Thread Jousma, David
616.653.8497 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 12:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Encryption software? On 03/23/10 12:50, Knutson, Sam wrote: We heard via the rumor mill a last

Re: Encryption software?

2010-03-23 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 03/23/10 13:14, Jousma, David wrote: Same here. Having a hard time swallowing a license fee for something that was/is free today. Don't want to put words into IBM's mouth, but since we had to pay for the encryption feature on the tape drives, and are now locked into it(lots of physical

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2010-03-23 Thread Gross, Randall [GCG-PFS]
...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 1:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Encryption software? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:50 AM

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2010-03-20 Thread Jim Marshall
kind of offering. Thus even if you have them snazzy encrypting cartridge drives it does not lessen the need for some file encryption software. Just as some food for thought. Say today you FTP a file from your z10 z/OS to a Windows platform. Hey it arrives in ASCII ready to process. OK

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2010-03-18 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
This topic is getting bounced around here and on the RACF-L as well, yet responses are scarce and sporadic. We in the hinterlands are looking for experiences with any of the major encrypting products to help in selecting one, without being hounded by vendors. Our site has mentioned TKLM and it

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2010-03-18 Thread Ward, Mike S
testing. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel McLaughlin Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Encryption software? This topic is getting bounced around here and on the RACF-L

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2010-03-18 Thread Revard, Thomas (T)
@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Encryption software? This topic is getting bounced around here and on the RACF-L as well, yet responses are scarce and sporadic. We in the hinterlands are looking for experiences with any of the major encrypting products to help in selecting one, without being hounded

Re: Encryption software?

2009-01-21 Thread Doc Farmer
/in/docfarmer -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:34 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Encryption software? I would like to solicit opinions about Mainframe data