[dba-Tech] Securing Excel File to avoid E-mail forwards

Gustav Brock Gustav at cactus.dk
Tue Dec 20 10:15:12 CST 2005


Hi Erwin

You can't deliver confidential data to non-cleared and non-trusted people - while at the same time keep the data confident. It's that simple.

You could perhaps create an encryption setup where the decryption is locked to the MAC address of the reader's machine and/or a time frame of an hour to watch the data. Still, if data is visible on screen it can be copied and passed on.

Or you'll need a dual key setup like that for controlling launch of nuclear weapons where no single person has the full key to anything. Thus customers would have to meet in pairs or triples to get access to the data ...

/gustav

>>> Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be 20-12-2005 08:19:29 >>>

"As Stuart said, you can't. If people can't handle confident data, don't pass it on."
Easy to say, but who is it? 
These are all employees of paying customers....

Can't fake data, is all official data and it would be noticed to, the data is verifiable.
Serializing tought of that to, but in 6 years time (thats 1560 unique Excel files * +/- 120 recipiants= 187200  Excel files with an own life), never got hold of a forwarded file. Since the data is so confidential no one is stupid enough to return a forwarded file to someone in the trust group. Why should they? The trust group has that data already.





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