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by **Matz Engstr** » Mon, 18 Feb 2002 05:40:58

At my company we share a lot of documentation on netdisks. Most is
written as Word or Excel or other Office documents. Some is sensitive,
so it ought to be encrypted. Have you seen any products, probably
plugins to Office, that enable me to store the documents encrypted,
and to have them travel over the network encrypted, to be decrypted
when opened in Office? It should be good encryption, and not what is
part of Office out of the box. Encrypted file systems and disks are no
good, since then the document will be decrypted before being sent over
the network to my PC
Regards / Matz

by **Jeremy Bisho** » Mon, 18 Feb 2002 05:54:49

Matz Engstrom spake thus:

Quote:> At my company we share a lot of documentation on netdisks. Most is
> written as Word or Excel or other Office documents. Some is sensitive,
> so it ought to be encrypted. Have you seen any products, probably
> plugins to Office, that enable me to store the documents encrypted,
> and to have them travel over the network encrypted, to be decrypted
> when opened in Office? It should be good encryption, and not what is

Easiest I can think of would be to use IPsec on your network. This
would have the benefit of protecting all traffic, not just Office docs.
Combining this with encrypted disks should give you all you need in
the way of security. (Oh, except on the local workstation, where
you'll likely have temp copies scattered around.)

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by **p..** » Mon, 18 Feb 2002 07:58:55

> At my company we share a lot of documentation on netdisks. Most is
> written as Word or Excel or other Office documents. Some is sensitive,
> so it ought to be encrypted. Have you seen any products, probably
> plugins to Office, that enable me to store the documents encrypted,
> and to have them travel over the network encrypted, to be decrypted
> when opened in Office? It should be good encryption, and not what is
> part of Office out of the box. Encrypted file systems and disks are no
> good, since then the document will be decrypted before being sent over
> the network to my PC
> Regards / Matz

Get PGP, it won't "plugin" to "office", however it's still both
reasonable easy and still secure.

It allows to encrypt documents to several persons at once if that
is a requirement, without sharing any "public secrets". ( everyone has
a public/private keypair, the public keys are known to everyone).

--
Peter H?kanson
IPSec Sverige (At the Riverside of Gothenburg, home of Volvo)
Sorry about my e-mail address, but i'm trying to keep spam out.
Remove "icke-reklam" and it works.

by **Gideon Lenke** » Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:08:54

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You could encrypt the the communication over the network using a VPN or
IPSec, however that will only protect the files in transit. It won't help
you on the server or your workstation. You should be aware when you are
reading, writing and editing files on a Windows PC that you are
scattering parts of the documents all over the drive. In the swap file,
temp files and even in the cluster tips as padding. These are easily
recovered and frequently are, often without your knowledge.

You may want to consider using a product like 'SecureOffice' to help
manage the file encryption and disk cleansing.

http://come.to/SecureOffice

- --Gideon

Quote:> At my company we share a lot of documentation on netdisks. Most is
> written as Word or Excel or other Office documents. Some is sensitive,
> so it ought to be encrypted. Have you seen any products, probably
> plugins to Office, that enable me to store the documents encrypted,
> and to have them travel over the network encrypted, to be decrypted
> when opened in Office? It should be good encryption, and not what is
> part of Office out of the box. Encrypted file systems and disks are no
> good, since then the document will be decrypted before being sent over
> the network to my PC
> Regards / Matz

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by **Adrian Edmond** » Mon, 18 Feb 2002 17:13:37

Quote:> At my company we share a lot of documentation on netdisks. Most is
> written as Word or Excel or other Office documents. Some is sensitive,
> so it ought to be encrypted. Have you seen any products, probably
> plugins to Office, that enable me to store the documents encrypted,
> and to have them travel over the network encrypted, to be decrypted
> when opened in Office? It should be good encryption, and not what is
> part of Office out of the box. Encrypted file systems and disks are no
> good, since then the document will be decrypted before being sent over
> the network to my PC
> Regards / Matz

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Encrypting Office documents stored on netdisks

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Encrypting Office documents stored on netdisks

Encrypting Office documents stored on netdisks

Encrypting Office documents stored on netdisks

Encrypting Office documents stored on netdisks