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  3. August 2001

Re: IIS to as/400 odbc

From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>

> Leif, I agree with you 100%.
> A proprietary protocol is a good additional security
> measure.  Certainly better than straight ODBC access.

anything is better than ODBC  :-)

>
> Do you agree or disagree with that statement?

obviously agree

>
> Encrypted communication between DMZ and production machines would be the
> next level, and using it would depend on the sensitivity of your data, the
> level of perceived threat, and the expense you're willing to shoulder.  How
> easy is it to implement a triple-DES connection between two machines?  How
> expensive?

Triple DES is fairly expensive. AES is cheap, very fast (almost as fast as
simple
disk I/O - see Chapter 30 of 'you-know-what').

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