Thanks for the suggestion! Sounds very promising and has the added benefit of totally befuddling the auditor. ;-)
I shall download and give it a whirl. On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 20:16:06 +0200, Ulrich Boche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you really need to provide proof that the packets in transit are >encrypted, the probably easiest thing to do is to install Ethereal on a >PC, start an SFTP file transfer between the PC and the z/OS system (you >could use PUTTY on a Windows system for that purpose) and capture the >packets with Ethereal. You don't even have to capture in promiscuous >mode for this purpose. Ethereal will format the TCP packets nicely so >you can see the negotiation and the encrypted data and provide the >needed proof. >-- >Ulrich Boche >SVA GmbH, Germany >IBM Premier Business Partner > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html