Re: How To Send Files Securely From Fedora

2009-05-04 Thread Robin Laing
Robert L Cochran wrote: I want to send files securely from my Fedora 11 (Preview) or Fedora 10 systems to a Microsoft Windows (Home Edition) user who quickly gets lost if asked to do anything complex. By "securely" sending files, I mean I wish to attach files to an email and then send them over

Re: How To Send Files Securely From Fedora

2009-05-03 Thread g
Tim wrote: > Good grief! That's the proverbial hiding the front-door key under the > doormat... this is true. but it made recovering a file easy if you forgot password and had 'xtree gold' or a binary editor to open file. not to mention for who ever else new about such. :) -- peace out. t

Re: How To Send Files Securely From Fedora

2009-05-03 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 22:35 +, g wrote: > early versions of pkzip had password in last 256 bytes of encrypted > file. Good grief! That's the proverbial hiding the front-door key under the doormat... -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my

Re: How To Send Files Securely From Fedora

2009-05-03 Thread g
Mail Lists wrote: > yes zip will work fine between linux and windows .. not the most secure > but certainly the simplest. if 'zip' under ms os is not pkzip, or is an improved version, ok. early versions of pkzip had password in last 256 bytes of encrypted file. i would highly recommend using thun

Re: How To Send Files Securely From Fedora

2009-05-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mail Lists wrote: > yes zip will work fine between linux and windows .. not the most secure > but certainly the simplest. If you need more security, then you should > set up something stronger like gpg on both machines. > Does the encryption option work the same on both? (-e option of zip on Linux

Re: How To Send Files Securely From Fedora

2009-05-03 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Mail Lists wrote: > yes zip will work fine between linux and windows .. not the most secure > but certainly the simplest. If you need more security, then you should > set up something stronger like gpg on both machines. And if you want to avoid the key management of gpg, you can just use gpg in "s

Re: How To Send Files Securely From Fedora

2009-05-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 15:31:07 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote: > I want to send files securely from my Fedora 11 (Preview) or Fedora 10 > systems to a Microsoft Windows (Home Edition) user who quickly gets lost > if asked to do anything complex. By "securely" sending files, I mean I > wis

Re: How To Send Files Securely From Fedora

2009-05-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mail Lists wrote: yes zip will work fine between linux and windows .. not the most secure but certainly the simplest. If you need more security, then you should set up something stronger like gpg on both machines. To add a few more thoughts to the pot, since the object is to get the files trans

Re: How To Send Files Securely From Fedora

2009-05-02 Thread Mail Lists
yes zip will work fine between linux and windows .. not the most secure but certainly the simplest. If you need more security, then you should set up something stronger like gpg on both machines. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/lis

Re: How To Send Files Securely From Fedora

2009-05-02 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote: > I want to send files securely from my Fedora 11 (Preview) or Fedora 10 > systems to a Microsoft Windows (Home Edition) user who quickly gets lost if > asked to do anything complex. By "securely" sending files, I mean I wish to > attach file

How To Send Files Securely From Fedora

2009-05-02 Thread Robert L Cochran
I want to send files securely from my Fedora 11 (Preview) or Fedora 10 systems to a Microsoft Windows (Home Edition) user who quickly gets lost if asked to do anything complex. By "securely" sending files, I mean I wish to attach files to an email and then send them over the wire either encrypt