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Emailing Sensitive Customer Information

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MrMeric

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Apr 1, 2004
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The corporation I work for is in the process of implementing encryption for emailing sensitive customer information, but they have given me the task of finding a temporary solution until the encryption is in place.

They insist that I create a program that splits these sensitive files in two. One file would contain the customer first & last name, while the other file would contain the account number. Each file would be sent to the recipient in a separate email.

Is this a viable solution?
 
I would say that it could be done, but by the time you could have a solution coded and in place, they could have found a permanent encryption solution.

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]
 
The recepient would also have to develop a program to combine the two e-mail after receiving them. I am not really sure that this is much more secure.

Dan
 
Establish a password you and client will share and send encrypted contents as an attachement (very much like zipped files). You can encrypt using third party tools such FineCrypt or plain Winzip.
 
why not just use PGP?
why re-create the wheel?
 
I was going to suggest PGP, but I don't have much experience with it and wasn't sure it would work in this instance.

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]
 
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