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Daniel,
Thanks again for responding, I sincerely do appreciate your desire to help me.
But your statement that, "Encryption is encryption is encryption in that if it is the same methodology the tool doesn't matter" doesn't fit here since the Data Encryption Standard (DES) by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) (used in Oracle's data obfuscation toolkit) is not the same algorithm as PGP encryption. PGP uses the public key (two keys) approach and DES has a single key, shared by sender and receiver.
I would love to be incorrect here, but I will certainly discuss this with the bank. If there is a chance that I could use the delivered Oracle obfuscation toolkit, I will certainly do so.
Do you know if a file encrypted with DES can somehow be decrypted with PGP? -Dan-
DA Morgan wrote:
> djs wrote:
> > Daniel,
> >
> > I appreciate your desire to help me save time and money.
> > Unfortunately, my requirements are coming from the bank. This is a
> > free service they offer and I don't have a choice in how I submit the
> > data--unless I want to pay them to modify their system.
> >
> > When you say that, "PGP isn't necessary unless you are paid by the hour
> > and need to increase your hours between now and the end of the
> > project", I'm not sure how you mean that. Could you please explain
> > how using PGP would increase the time I would spend coding? Since I
> > can't use the Oracle obfuscation toolkit, I need to code and am just
> > looking NOT to spend more time and money--just help finding the
> > easiest/quickest solution given my constraints on this project.
> >
> > Thanks again for all you are doing to help me sort this out.
> > -Dan-
> >
> > DA Morgan wrote:
> >> djs wrote:
> >>> Daniel,
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for responding to my post, I appreciate your offer to help.
> >>>
> >>> I apologize for being dim, but I don't see a "PGP" option in the
> >>> obfuscation toolkit. As I mentioned, the bank requires either PGP
> >>> encryption or a secure connection (HTTPS). Or, will the transportable
> >>> tablespace provide a secure connection? What information do I need to
> >>> provide to my DBA to enable him to establish a transportable tablespace
> >>> with the bank? I have just started to make contact with the bank and
> >>> don't know their platform yet. Will a transportable tablespace
> >>> solution be possible if they are not on Oracle?
> >>>
> >>> Sorry for asking so many questions, but I need more detail in order to
> >>> implement a solution and move this fairly tiny project into production.
> >>> Transferring a file should not feel like so much work!
> >>>
> >>> Thanks again for helping,
> >>> -Dan-
> >> PGP isn't in the obfuscation toolkit. PGP isn't necessary unless you are
> >> paid by the hour and need to increase your hours between now and the end
> >> of the project.
> >> --
> >> Daniel A. Morgan
> >> University of Washington
> >> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
> >> (replace x with u to respond)
> >> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
> >> www.psoug.org
>
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