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  3. March 2005

RE: Encrypted email versus HTTPS - weakness of .zip encryption

> > 1) The encrypted .zip seems the simplest solution and in the interest of
> > expediency we might go with something like that - assuming that is
> > 'secure' enough to suit our client.
> 
> Unless something has changed since I last looked into it, the encryption
> on a ZIP file is relatively weak. 

Scott,

I am leaning towards an HTTPS solution, but will retain the encrypted email
option as 'Plan B'. Thanks for the clarification on those *nix things. The
utility I recall seeing was a CMD and CL front-end to a port of a C-language
gzip utility so I guess it wouldn't have handled encryption anyway...

JK

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