It would be much easier to do this with ssl certificates. You wouldn't need commercial certs for this. With IIS, you can generate both a server and client cert and enrcrypt traffic between them. I am pretty sure that there is an open source system to do the same on Linux.
Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company At 03:46 PM 2/21/2003 -0800, you wrote: >I don't know much about encryption ... > >If I encrypt something with one of the PertWeb encyption tools >(http://developer.perthweb.com.au/), can another user (assuming the user has >the private key) decrypt the string with software other than a cfx tag? I >mean, is there something I can have people who don't have access to Cold >Fusion locally take an encyprted file and decrypt it? > >What I want to do is encypt something on the server with the public key and >then have a user grab the encrypted string, and decrypt it -- but without >them having to install CF and the CFX tag on their local machine. > >What tools are available? What would you recommend -- preferrably some >freeware. > >Thanks. > >H. > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Howard Owens >Internet Operations Coordinator >InsideVC.com/Ventura County Star >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >AIM: GoCatGo1956 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
