This highly technical concept of "poking a hole in a firewall" ... can you
be less metaphoric? Do you really create a temporary situation where
your firewall will admit anything, or does it recognize packets from your
trading partners and let them through?
Do you check message digests or signatures before bringing the messages
through the main firewall?
Howard Parks
1 Peter 4:10
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Veilleux, Daniel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 3:50 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: FTP and Encryption
>
> The way we do it is we have an FTP server in the DMZ. It is outside of
> our
> main firewall, but behind a secondary firewall. When we need to set up
> FTP
> with a new trading partner we poke a hole in our secondary firewall to
> allow
> the trading partner to FTP the encrypted file to us. We then ship the
> file
> inside our main firewall and do the decryption there.
>
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