Actually, that is something I have... thought about, but only as long as it took the next "thing" to pop up and send me off track to handle another problem, etc...
Before encryption became easily available on the mainframe, I "had" thought about a putting together an automated Rube Goldberg process where I would use TRSMAIN to compress a file on the sending host, email it to my home WS, save it there, then FTP it to one of the P/390's I have running, submit a job from the PC, via FTP, to run TRSMAIN to expand the file and then take the output and FTP it back out to my internal LAN. :) I figured the format of a TRSMAIN compressed EBCDIC file should ensure a decent amount of protection. On Wed Mar 19 14:25 , 'McKown, John' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')">[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green >> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:15 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >> Subject: Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows >> >> >> Well, that's an interesting question, Rick. In my >> situations, everything was behind the firewall so there was >> little concern for hackers. I do know that the IIS on the WS >> can be setup with some security (userid, password, restricted >> directory(ies), etc... >> >> Is there any built-in security for FTP? Perhaps encryption? >> >> Oh, oh, oh... I just had an idea. >> > > >[snip] > >> I just know I am giving security-conscious lurkers >> acid-reflux with all this. ;) >> > >That is actually fairly good. The only thing that I would add to it >would be to encrypt the email entirely, both ways. That way, nobody can >fake one on you. And the data is relatively safe as it crosses the >Internet. Of course, if you do it a lot, a number of government entities >might become "concerned". Use of a "one time pad" would be even more >secure than using a pre-selected private key. And each message could >contain the contents of the next pad in the series. > >-- >John McKown >Senior Systems Programmer >HealthMarkets >Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage >Administrative Services Group >Information Technology > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
