From: gony at my-dejanews.com (gony at my-dejanews.com)
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 05:38:14 GMT
Subject: Cryptography and web storage using PGP,Python and ftp sessions
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This is a 4th year bachelor of technology assignment for a systems programming
paper and hence a complete answer to the assignment would be wrong.

However there are about 20 of my fellow students who would greatly appreciate
any guidance in completing this assignment.
 the assignment is as follows.

Your task is to develop a secure internet-based file repository so mobile
users can access files whilst travelling, and enable secure off site backup.
Your system must enable a user to save personal files on the archieve-server
with the confidence that, even if the files should be inappropriately
accessed, they will be of absolutely no use to anyone else. These files are
to be encrypted so that they can only be read by the intended recipient this
could either be the person publishing the page or another specified person (a
single recipient must be specified beforethe file is published). In the
latter case the server acts as a secure mailbox.

for the encrytion system, use the freely available version of PGP. For
communication with the remote system automate an ftp session. The code to tie
these together is to be written in Python - a freely available interpreted
language.

we can develop the system in either a UNIX or a Win95/98 platform.

any hints, tips, suggestions, links to relevant sites, advice etc would be
greatly appreciated

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