Re: Sending Encrypted Data to an E-mail Account

Four steps to Security (or how to be good until your boss looses his Excel spreadsheet by mailing it to his hotmail account for some *sure* work at home).

Set up your secure server
Process your data
Encrypt your data (geez I'm a stats whore).
Mail it.

-derby

Update: Yikes! browser enabled encryption ... don't even try. You're better off doing it at the server. If the boss complains, start throwing words around like fiduciary responsibility.

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Re^2: Sending Encrypted Data to an E-mail Account by shaolindoman (Acolyte) on Jun 21, 2004 at 17:24 UTC
Well my main reason for asking all of this to avoid packet sniffing. How would I get around packet sniffing if the user is sending over name/credit card/etc. intially when they are ordering something.	[reply]
Re^3: Sending Encrypted Data to an E-mail Account by Fletch (Bishop) on Jun 21, 2004 at 17:48 UTC
Web Security, Privacy & Commerce, 2nd Edition; and Secrets and Lies : Digital Security in a Networked World ( ISBN 0471453803 ). Stop now and read at least the later (which will hopefully explain that doing security correctly is hard even for those that have a clue what they're doing).	[reply]
Re^4: Sending Encrypted Data to an E-mail Account by shaolindoman (Acolyte) on Jun 21, 2004 at 17:56 UTC
I'll check them both out. Thank you all for the help. Hoepfully I can make sense of what I am doing now. Thanks.	[reply]
Re^3: Sending Encrypted Data to an E-mail Account by derby (Abbot) on Jun 21, 2004 at 17:40 UTC
Secure servers are the real way to get around packet sniffing. There are some attempts to do client-side public key encryption via javascript (giyf) but I sure would hate to be on the QA team for something like that. -derby	[reply]
Re^4: Sending Encrypted Data to an E-mail Account by shaolindoman (Acolyte) on Jun 21, 2004 at 17:45 UTC
Alright. I'm going to see what I can do with this for now. I've been reading through the links you posted. Thanks for eveyone's help thus far.	[reply]