RE: PASE is soooooo cool! -- MIDRANGE-L

PGP is Pretty Good Privacy, a public key/private key encryption scheme. It's
freeware from MIT (http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html) for non-commercial
use and available from www.pgp.com for commercial use. "Pretty Good" is a
funny name given that it's probably the most unbreakable encryption outside
of NSA.

As to what's needed to install, just copy the directory into the IFS. I
copied it as a drag/drop from WinZip via NetServer on my AS/400, but FTP
would have worked just as well. If you're not familiar w/AIX or any other
unix pick up a book, it's the antithesis of OS/400 when it comes to new user
friendliness.

-Walden


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Walden H Leverich III
President
Tech Software
(516)627-3800 x11
WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com
http://www.TechSoftInc.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Slava.Zharichenko@US.exel.com [mailto:Slava.Zharichenko@US.exel.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:31
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: PASE is soooooo cool!



Hi,
what exactly involved in installing PGP on as/400? just uploading PGP
binaries (what is that?) to IFS? I am not familiar with AIX but this looks
like an opportunity to do so.

Any information will be appreciated.

Thanks.







WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com@midrange.com on 01/17/2002 10:21:37 AM

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OK, I have a need to FTP some data but the client wants it encrypted. I
figure I have two choices:

1) Get some SSL-enabled FTP client and server
2) Use PGP to encrypt the original file and then ftp that file

I decided option 2 was interesting so I went to get the PGP source to see
how hard it would be to port to the AS/400 when it struck me, I can run AIX
binaries with PASE. One short trip to pgp.mit.edu and I had a zip of a
tarball of PGP binaries compiled for AIX. I opened the zip in WinZip and
then opened the tarball in WinZip and copied the contents to the IFS. A
quick hop over to green screen land, start up QShell and I'm running PGP on
the AS/400. In the immortal words of Tony, it's GRRRRRRRRRREAT!

One question, is there a way to interact with the QSHELL environment that
isn't as ugly as 5250 mode. QSHELL, like all unix, expects character at a
time, not record at a time. The command-line hit, hit enter for program to
see keystroke, interface is ugly when working with AIX stuff.

-Walden

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Walden H Leverich III
President
Tech Software
(516)627-3800 x11
WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com
http://www.TechSoftInc.com

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