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Re: Hypothetical situation for networks
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In <[email protected]>, on 08/13/97
at 09:39 PM, Mike Jones <[email protected]> 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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