Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 17:35:22 +1100 (EST) From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au> To: donald zebe <dzebe@qualcomm.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960109170713.22869A-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au> In-Reply-To: <v02120d00ad16da966876@[129.46.54.212]>
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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 ? General/Mail PGP exists for sending/receiving secure mail and documents, it is in the ports collection, and is avalible for all major operating systems. Web Browsers Netscape supports secure sockets, and will talk securely to any web server that also supports it. Netscape is avalible in the packages collection and is avalible on all major platforms. (Read the netscape security notices - a bug was revealed in all older versions which leaves them vunerable - new unvunerable versions and patches have been released.) Web Servers The Netscape Commerce server supports secure sockets, and will run on several UNIX platforms including FreeBSD (and Windows NT I think). A version of the Apache web server exists that supports secure sockets, (this is not the version that is in the ports collection), but the source compiles under FreeBSD 2.1 without modification. Remote Login/telnet ssh or slogin (secure shell or secure login) is avalible for most UNIX platforms and windows, and the source compiles on FeeBSD 2.1 without modification. All of these are avalible for free (except the Netscape commerce server), and all can use strong encryption anywhere in the world (except the Netscape commerce server). The encyption they all use is based on the trendy RSA style public/private key prime number thinggy. That enough for you ?
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