ftp encryption

[John Harvey]

Hi all,  I know I just posted this the other day, but I can’t seem to find my original post!  I was asking last week if anyone has used quovadx to encrypt a file before ftping it to an outside vendor.  I am on version 5.2 and our version isn’t designed for this.  Someone mentioned they had done this, and I was hoping for some more info.

Whatever info is available…thanks in advance!

John

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[Mike Grieger]

old post, search word ‘encryption’:

https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/viewtopic.php?t=969&highlight=encryption

[Bakha Nurzhanov]

I have done such thing. I am encrypting content of a message before passing it to the outbound protocol driver. I had difficult time doing dual pipe as in:

(UNIX eq: cat “message” | pgp | cat ) so I had to create a temporary file by writing the message. I then exec pgp < tempfile_in > tempfile_out. Lastly I would read tempfile_out back into message and pass it on. You would also need to change DRIVERCTL metadata to append .pgp to the original file name (which is not mandatory but is a nice thing to do to your trading partner). You would need to create temp directory in your $HCIROOT if you use this code verbatim. You also would need to use command line version of pgp and it will have to be in your $PATH. I also get original file name from USERDATA structure of message metadata which I populate using custom code.

Here is the snippet of the code:

Code:

               global HciConnName HciRootDir
               set msgCtr [CtrNextValue “${HciConnName}”]
               set msgOutFileName [file join ${HciRootDir} {temp} ${HciConnName}_${msgCtr}]
               set msgOutFile [open ${msgOutFileName} w]
               msgwrite raw $mh $msgOutFile
               flush $msgOutFile
               close $msgOutFile
               set msgInFileName “$msgOutFileName.pgp”
               catch { exec pgp +verbose=0 +force -ef < $msgOutFileName > $msgInFileName ${pgp_user_id} }
               set msgInFileSize [file size ${msgInFileName}]
               set msgInFile [open ${msgInFileName} r]
               msgread raw $mh $msgInFile $msgInFileSize
               close $msgInFile
               file delete $msgOutFileName $msgInFileName

               set fileName “$fileName.pgp”
               set drvr_ctl_str “{FILESET {{OBFILE $fileName} {OBSTYLE single}}}”
               msgmetaset $mh DRIVERCTL $drvr_ctl_str

               lappend dispList “CONTINUE $mh”

[Bob Schmid]

Bakha,

Where / what version of pgp are you using and are you running it on UNIX ? what flavor ?

Thanks

Bob

[Bakha Nurzhanov]

Robert, see below

$ pgp -h

Pretty Good Privacy(tm) Version 6.5.8

$ uname -a

HP-UX mkifmgr2 B.11.11 U 9000/800 151424690 unlimited-user license

I got it from http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html (MIT PGP distribution site) which apparently no longer provides it.

This site http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgp/versions/freeware/unix/ seems to have it.

[Bob Schmid]

Appreciate your time!

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