On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Pete Theisen wrote:
> Ken Elliott wrote:
> > Pete>>I am working on such an application for Traditional Chinese Medicine.
> > Pete>>I guess I will have to make it lock down by default so they *have* to
> > use secure passwords,
> > Pete>> change the passwords every so often and so on.
> >
> > Since you are writing the app, you could encrypt the data BEFORE you store
> > it in a database. That would render it useless to anything other then your
> > application. Each patient would need a client copy of an app that would
> > (using normal security measures) read the database, and decode it using a
> > patient-specific key. Your app would have to use a different key for each
> > patient, and you'd have to provide a way to change the data should a key be
> > made public. That way, you could only lose on patient's data at a time,
> > rather than risk the whole DB.
>
> Food for thought, thanks. Academic right now since I am still trying to
> copy a file to a floppy
if you have mtools:
mcopy file a:
if you don't:
mount /dev/fd0 /path/to/empty/dir -t whatever
cp file /path/to/empty/dir
umount /path/to/empty/dir
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