From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:55:27 +0800
To: Mike Jones <Mkljones@cris.com>
Subject: Re: Hypothetical situation for networks
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In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970813213346.8665A-100000@mariner.cris.com>, on 08/13/97

   at 09:39 PM, Mike Jones <Mkljones@cris.com> said:

>This is a 100% hypothetical situation, though would be interesting to see
>if it is possible.

>A company does some R&D work, which it wishes to keep classified from
>competitors.

>However, they have two main offices on opposite sides of the country.

>Not wishing to use sneakernet type file transfer, they wish to pass
>confidential material from one network to the other using the Internet.

>Now we all know that anyone with a little bit of knowledge can intercept
>the packets as they go past and read the information.

>Email is out, as they do use a system of file mirroring, keeping each set
>of data as a backup as well as for usage.

>Would make sense for them to use a type of NFS system, but is there an
>implimentation of secure (ie: encrypted) NFS available?

>OS doesn't really matter, as it is a hypothetical system, but we'll
>assume either some form of unix/linux, or perhaps winNT or novell
>NetWare.

>Thanks in advance for the info and knowledge...sorry if it's been asked
>before.

Redirect all your socket connections through ssh. That way all your
communications between the two offices will be encrypted.

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