On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:13 am, Rowling, Jill wrote: > If your external source insists on the passworded zip then it depends on > how often you need to do this. > If you need to do it often enough, then the mail filter needs to be > altered for that user/source combo.
Hell no. Then the external party can send us anything in a passworded zip
and we'd be none the wiser (I don't trust *anyone* that much :P). Not an
option in our case. Besides this is an infrequent thing, so I was hoping
to avoid punching holes in our security (permanently) to allow for these
corner cases.
> Sometimes you have to negotiate with the sender instead. There are
> free-as-in-beer versions of gpg for windows (google for it) which both
> users can install at each end, and they just need to agree on a password.
> They will work with outlook.
We've managed to coax them into encrypting the file with GPG (WinPT I think)
then sending the encrypted file, "in the clear" using my GPG key to
encrypt. Once I get the file, I'll decrypt it, scan it for viruses etc,
then forward it to the internal user via the LAN.
> For a one-off they can courier a cdrom to each other, far cheaper than
> changing the whole system.
Indeed. External user is in Brisvegas, we are in Sydney, and the files need
be in our system before CoB today. It's a bit of a logistics hurdle for
the courier option.
But on a side note, we managed to transmit about 512GB of data from Sydney
to our data centre in Boston in about 3 days on one occasion (that's about
16.67Mbps sustained for 3 days)....amazing what you can do with an express
courier and a pile of DLT's!
James
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There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of
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