Re: encrypting received faxes before emailing

A J Stiles <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.telephony.fax.hylafax.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 24 Jan 2016, John Hudak wrote:
> Hi:
> I have a need to encrypt received faxes before emailing them.
> Can anyone point me into the right direction to do this?

Faxrcvd.  You can have a script run whenever a fax is received and do various 
funky things with it.

> My initial thoughts are to monitor a 'fax received' variable and when
> ascerted, I'd kick off a script tht would pick  up the received fax, run
> zip (with a predefined password) and when the zip file is created, send it
> to the mail program.

A password protected zip archive is about as secure as putting a padlock 
through the zip sliders of a tent.  At least use something sensible like 
gnupg.

Check out the gpg manpage and their online documentation, which is pretty 
comprehensive.  And once you manage to send encrypted messages from the bash 
prompt, then you can think about doing it from the fax receive script.


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AJS
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