From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 15:00:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA15866 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 15:00:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (aspen.woc.atinc.com [198.138.38.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA15857 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 15:00:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA21748; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:59:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:59:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: donald zebe cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: security In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, donald zebe wrote: > www security is a real concern for those who use credit cards to purchase > goods and services. Are ther any real security (encryption or encoding) > options that exist within this operating system ? Would it be accepted ? > Would the program be adapatable to other os ? ssh (secure shell) is real security. public key cryptosystem with IDEA session keys. it has been ported to FreeBSD and several other systems. http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh/ Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG