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Now, due to the "Full Employment for Lawyers and Auditors Act of 2002"
(a.k.a. Sarbanes-Oxley) our main client is requiring all communications to
be 'secure'. Without completely reworking the business procedures, I see two
options: 1) Use PGP or S/MIME to encrypt the attachments, or 2) Email a
'link' to our website, challenge the user for a userid/pw and use HTTPS to
allow the download.

Or both... :) Use PGP or S/MIME to encrypt an e-mail that contains a link...


The disadvantage of a website link such as
"https://www.myserver.com/docs/somedocument.pdf"; is ensuring a user does not
accidentally or purposely mangle the link and thereby retrieve someone
else's document. Could the solution be as simple as appending a hash# to the
document id?

Send each user a digital certificate that they can install into their browsers. Companies that I've worked with will provide a CD-Rom or floppy disk with a "setup.exe" program that will do all the work of installing the client certificate into the browsers.


Then, when they make a request from your iSeries, don't give them a direct link to the document, but instead have a program that runs on the iSeries that checks for the client's digital certificate.

Depending on the certificate that it finds, return the appropriate document (not a link to it, just copy the document...) This way, only a user with a particular certificate can get the document.

Alternately, give them a userid/password instead of using a digital certificate... not quite as secure, but might be more convienient depending on the circumstances...


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