[Eug-lug] sending encrypted emails from a webserver

[Ben Barrett]

Secrets are to be moved from the webserver to one specified inbox, securely.
Small secrets, similar in length to a phone number.  It could be hipaa
delivery
of client info or a financial transaction, for instance.

    Ben


On 11/29/06, Michael Miller <mike.mikemiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What are you trying to do?  I think you might get an answer if you
> explain what your tyring to do or list of requirements.
>
> Mike Miller
>
> On 11/28/06, larry price <laprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does it absolutely have to be GPG or would any block cipher encoding
> work?
> >
> > I've used openssl for encrypting database backup files and the same
> > technique could be applied here.
> >
> > for example:
> >
> > script_with_secret_output.sh |  openssl aes-256-ecb -e -a -salt -pass
> > env:SALEPASS |mail -s`date +%Y%m%d; echo accountsummary`
> > offshore_email at example.com
> >
> > and then once it's at it's destination and you've stripped it out of
> > the mail body into a file with the subject as it's name:
> >
> > openssl aes-256-ecb -d -a -salt -pass pass:f00bar <
> 20061128accountsummary |less
> >
> > to read it.
> >
> > That's a quick and dirty hack, if you were setting up something more
> > robust you would probably use your favorite scripting languages'
> > openssl binding to do pretty much the same thing and package it up
> > with a proper mime/type and make sure that the passphrase couldn't be
> > read anywhere but at the keyboard.
> >
> > (OR just scp whatever to it's destination)
> > On 11/28/06, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Has anyone used http://www.awtrey.com/software/gpgsend.php
> > > or found better or similar solutions?  Rot-13 need not apply :)
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > >    Ben
> > >
> > >
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