On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 10:51:50AM : > > Arun Sharma forced the electrons to say: > Where does pgp/gpg come in this picture of secure communications? ****!!!!???? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- PGP and GPG are used for data encryption, not network security. They use the same underlying algorithms as SSH and SSL. > > Netscape already has it built in. The mail server that you use needs > > to be capable of speaking SSL. I don't know of any that run on Linux. Hi Arun, There is an increasing need to develop applications for implementing VPN in enterprises As you've said Linux has'nt a mail server that supports SSL, so a problem of secure communication arises between Win and lets put it as Non-Win machines. As of now there are no agreed upon protocols,therefore it is up to the software developer to use his ingenuity and come up with a solution. The solution being use of some encryption techniques on the data and sending it over by some established means i.e ftp,http etc.. and decoding at the recieving end. The same is applicable to files or mail. Therefore we're looking at something that's definately like PGP for secure communications. It's not Network Security ,in the sense of restricting access ,but security from unauthorized access in the Network. bye, Kaushik Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on the LIH mailing list see: http://lists.linux-india.org/lists/LIH
