Hi Richard,
It sounds like something that can be done with the S/MIME functions in the
library, since you're talking about attachments. Why not do a direct transfer
with some SSL based protocol, such as https?
Doing stuff with S/MIME makes things more complicated when comparing to
something like https, because there are more tools around that handles the
latter (notice how I did not mention security at all).
Regards,
Michael.
Richard Dybowski wrote:
> I am completely new to SSL so please forgive the naivety of my question. I
> wish to set up an encryption system by which a colleague can encode a
> database and send the corresponding ciphertext to me as an attached e-mail
> file. After decoding the attachment and analyzing the database, I will
> encode my statistical analysis of the data and send the ciphertexted report
> to him as an attached file. Is SSL the best way of doing this or is there a
> simpler but equally secure way of doing this?
>
> Richard
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