"more secure" 3rd-party file sharing?

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Sat Aug 26 22:06:01 EDT 2006


On 8/25/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> > An SSL tunnel doesn't help if the end point is under the
> > enemy's control.
>
> No, but if transferring sensitive material between remote offices of
> the same company over the internet, it's a "reassuring, warm, fuzzy
> feeling" provided to the users, the IT group, the security weenies,
> etc. to say "it's secured over SSL" :)

  Absolutely.  I have to say that OpenVPN -- which uses OpenSSL for
the actual crypto -- kicks ass.  :-)

-- Ben



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