"Leonard S. Berkowitz" wrote:
>
> We are still looking for such utilities for the HP3000:
>
> 1. Encryption. Yes, PGP is freely available, but with the restriction of "not
> for commercial use", a phrase that is hard to understand, but that makes our
> attorneys edgy. Earlier in the year (or perhaps late in 1999), there was a
> suggestion that I pursued with nothing to show so far. We need a product that we
> can use on the HP e3000 and the resulting file can be unecrypted by an outside
> vendor that might be using a Unix or NT platform. Any ideas or suggestions?

The HP WebWise MPE/iX Secure Web Server product (p/n B9074AA or B9074AAE) comes
with the OpenSSL command line utility
(http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/openssl.html).  HP only supports the portions
of WebWise OpenSSL required to administer a secure web server (i.e. key and
certificate creation), but OpenSSL is also capable of much unsupported
functionality too, including general purpose file encryption/decryption.

> 2. Compression. LZW is freely available from the kind folks at Telemon, but has
> the same "not for commercial use". Informally, we have heard that it is OK to
> compress files and send them out as part of our business as long as we are not
> putting LZW into some package we are distributing or selling. Again, this is not
> good enough for our attorneys, so we are looking for a product that we can use
> on the HP e3000, and the resulting file can be uncompressed by an outside vendor
> that might be using a Unix or NT platform. Any ideas or suggestions?

MPE's /bin/compress and /bin/uncompress is compatible with Unix compress and
uncompress.  I believe you can obtain similar utilities that will work
compatibly on NT.

- Mark B.