From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 4 07:53:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA04106 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 07:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from connet80.com (connet80.connet80.com [199.2.214.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA04101 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 07:53:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from meljr@localhost) by connet80.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA00776; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 07:52:59 -0700 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 07:52:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mel Lester Jr." To: Jakob Alvermark cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Secure connection In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA04102 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At my last place of employment, we depended on FreeBSD based encryption routers that used a technology called "skip" to provide security between several sites in two countries (US and Canada). It worked rather well and allowed our firewalls to funtion normally. While skip, like FreeBSD, are freely available, we purchased these systems as toasters from a firm in Beaverton, OR called Silicon Forest Consultants, Inc. I am satisfied with their integration and support. If you are interested in contacting Silicon Forest, I would be glad to forward their e-mail address and telephone number. -mel lester On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Jakob Alvermark wrote: > Hello isp'ers! > > I don't know if these questions are appropriate for this list, but I > thought it was worth a try. > > Here is the situation: > This company I work for has a couple of offices, two with internet > connection. > This two offices is situated in two different countries, Sweden and > England. The two offices wants to tranfers files to each other via the > internet. So far so good. It's possible. But, we want to do it in a > "secure" way. Both offices has firewalls that don't let anybody in. We > could "punch a hole" in our firewalls. Then we can connect to each > other(actually England office can connect to Sweden only, they have a > one-way-dial-up-ISDN). But the information is still readable. We don´t want > that. So I wonder what I can do about it. Some kind of encryption? Is > there any "secure" filetransfer protocol? > > I hope you understand my problem, and that somebody can help me, or give > me some hints. > > Thanks, > Jakob Alvermark > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Teligent AB, P.O. Box 213, S-149 23 Nynäshamn, Sweden > Telephone +46-(0)8 520 660 00 * Fax +46-(0)8 520 193 36 > Direct +46-(0)8 520 660 32 * GSM +46-(0)70 792 16 57 > >