Data Encryption for files sent from OpenVMS to Other Platforms

[Steven Schweda]

Death is a simple solution to disease, too,
but it's nice to disclose its side-effects
when obtaining informed consent.

[Tom O'Toole]

If VMS is being called 'legacy', a la 'the gartner group', and sensitive data is being moved to windows, maybe informed consent is a little too much to ask...?....

[Michael Trojak]

Thank goodness there are people out there willing to help secure systems and willing to share the information (GnuPG Project).

[Gunnar Schwant]

Hello,

I had a similar problem as one of our communication partners is running his systems on mainframe architectures (e.g. z/OS). He complained that he cannot use GnuPG because it is not available for mainframes.

I replied that instead of GnuPG one can use any software which is compliant to the OpenPGP standard. There are vendors which provide such software for mainframes. Here are some examples:

MegaCryption: http://www.aspg.com/megacrypt.htm

PGP Command Line: http://www.pgp.com/products/commandline/mainframes/faqs.html#4a

Moreover, it might be interesting for people that MegaCryption received FIPS certification from the National Institute of Standards and Technology recently: http://www.aspg.com/releases/MC_FIPS_Certification_0606.pdf . It supports supports compliancy for a number of state and federal privacy mandates such as: HIPAA, Sarbannes/Oxley, FERPA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley & California SB1386.

Cheers,
Gunnar.