Self Decrypting Archives

[John B]

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On Thursday 19 June 2003 16:07, Jeff Herrin wrote:
> Nobody is actually clicking on anything. The file creation, the encryptio=
n,
> the FTP transfers, the decryption is all done automatically by scripts th=
at
> are designed to specifically handle SDAs. I know they have the ability wi=
th
> their commercial version of PGP to handle whatever I send them but their
> system is specifically looking to read from an FTP folder and decrypt it =
as
> an SDA.
>
> Jeff Herrin

  So tell them how *insecure* it is. It won't take any longer to truly encr=
ypt=20
a message/whatever than to make the same message/whatever an SDA. Tell them=
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that if they're worried about being secure, they need to stop the SDA crud=
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and do it right and tell them they need to quit being so lazy. It's just=20
plain ridiculous to have a paid-for version of PGP on a windows machine, an=
d=20
just use it for SDA's, it's just simply ludicrous.

  John
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"You will bring ussss.....A SHRUBBERY!"
These guys looked dangerous...and hungry,
so to placate them until I found a shrubber,
I fed them an MSN butterfly. They dined
quite happily it seemed.
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