Encryption is available in MM, simply enter an S at the Transmit now// prompt
----- Original Message ----- From: John Leo Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, September 30, 2005 10:26 am Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] What will receive the incoming mails? > From: Ruben Safir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > How do you prevent leakage of private information? Does it have > > cryptography build into the mail? > > > > > Mailman does not itself support encryption, at least not in the > versions that > I used in my office ten years ago. Someone else will answer > whether there are > more robust capabilities now. > > However, > > 1. MailMan has been used behind the VA's firewall... actually over > theirsecure network. I have used it primarily for intraoffice > communications in my > practice. Crude, simple, text-only messaging can be VERY useful > there.... and > only as secure as the network... as is the CPRS GUI. > > > BUT: > 2. Having access to the MailMan code makes encryption available with > relatively simple hooks into the operation MUMPS code. > > 2b. In 1994 I was using MailMan to send text and images (patient > photos)between home and the office and Mercer University with PGP > encryption and PGP > ASCII wrapper for the images... also UUENCODE/DECODE. It all > worked because > the MailMan source code is there to be seen and played with... a > great way to > learn, IMHO. > > jlz > > > PS: 1994 was a looong time ago in Moore's-law years. Patient > privacy and the > need for security of medical records predates HIPPA and all the > foaming at the > mouth it generates. > > > "Look alive, here comes a buzzard." > -- Pogo > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, > discussions,and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
