Re: Encryption - Newbie

From: Bonj (a_at_b.com)
Date: 03/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:25:27 -0000

If it's easily hackable, would you want to be using it? How do you know
someone else couldn't hack it just like you have, and hack your program in
the process?

"Anonymous" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FA05D1E4-7157-49C3-8977-E605CCA11432@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> I have a web site that is using SSL to get data from the end user. I want
to do the following:
> 1. Pass the data to a COM object sitting on another server SECURELY. am
I able to create a secure connection between the 2 machines?
> 2. Encrypt the data using some encryption tool. I would need help here
to find which tool to use. I looked into PGP but they don't have a command
line argument version of their tool. They only have a GUI interface. Any
ideas here? Does windows have an encryption DLL that I can use? Is it
secure or is it easily hackable?
> 3. Store the encrypted data in the database?
>
> Also, the Web site is never going to interact with the DB directly. All
calls will be through the COM object on another machine. Does anyone have
any experience with how secure this topology is?
>
> please advise.
> mike

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