On Thursday, March 4, 2004, 16:02:19, Madscientist wrote: > The person (sender) that wants to send the zip (or any file) sends an > email to let the receiver know they want to send. The receiver sends > them back a file name to use. The sender zips or otherwise processes > their file and renames it accordingly. The receiver refuses to open > any file attachment that has a name they did not provide.
Why not have the sender PGP encrypt & sign it it?
No ping-ponging necessary.
<all-in-fun>
Absolutely right - unless the sender or receiver doesn't have pgp, or never heard of it, or for some reason refuses to consider it. If it's me and one of my fellows then we're going to know precisely what we're sending back and forth and what not to trust and we will have no need for any extra mechanisms... Same with most technically savvy folks I suspect.
Procedures like the one above are primarily for those folks who neither know nor care to know about such things, but do know they don't to get blamed for a virus incursion - or have been told by their pointy-haired overlord that this is the way to do things.
One of my side businesses is consulting for the pointy-hair types to help them herd the motley felines that they pour into their cubicle farms... you know, those wild wooly places where pebcaks and id10T errors grow up and and swing from the cat5 in the plenum between lunch breaks... so I find on occasion, it's important to work on the lowest common denominator.
</all-in-fun>
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