"more secure" 3rd-party file sharing?

[Bruce Dawson]

Paul Lussier wrote:

>Randy Edwards <redwards at golgotha.net> writes:
>  
>
>>   But what gets me is that the free software world hasn't
>>integrated or come up with a secure solution.  Sure, encrypting mail
>>is available, but it's generally a kludge.  The most polished MUA
>>for encryption I've seen is KDE's KMail.
>>    
>>
>"Secure e-mail" is an oxymoron, no matter how "polished" the MUA is.
>It if can be cut'n'pasted, it's not secure.  You can tunnel it over
>SSL, and you can triple-encrypt it with the strongest crypto, but as
>soon as it's read by the recipient, it's now insecure and sitting in
>memory where it's vulnerable.
>
>The biggest threats to "security" are stupid or non-caring users and
>"ease-of-use".
>
>But I don't really feel strongly about this ;)
>  
>
Not to beat a dead horse or anything :-)

MLS/CMW is a secure produce (rated B1 I believe) that maintains the
"security level" of things like cut-and-paste regions, overlapping
windows, ... and prevents secure data from getting into less-secure
environments.

It is an expensive product though, and now that the cold-war is over, I
don't think anyone can afford it. I'm not sure its even being produced
any more.

--Bruce