Re: encrypting received faxes before emailing

Thank you for the suggestion.  I am curious though, could you please tell
me why 256-bit AES encoded file which is the cypher I plan on using,  is
"about as secure as putting a padlock through the zip sliders of a tent"?

From my readings (mostly papers on cyphers, some time ago), 256 AES was
'one of the top ones'....

having just read info about gnupg, I see it is a hybrid encryption
program...not clear what that buys me....
Thanks
J



On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:54 AM, A J Stiles <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> --
> AJS
> (Originating address does not accept e-mail.  Insert a figure "one" before
> the
> at sign if replying off-list.)
>
>
> ____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________
>   To subscribe/unsubscribe, click
> http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi
>  On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe [email protected] <
> /dev/null
>   *To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail [email protected].*
>
>