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From: brett@solar.card.inpu.oz.au (Brett Sealey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ
Subject: Re: The innards of the FTAM implementation
Keywords: ftam modification, functions, data structures
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.113524.222@solar.card.inpu.oz.au>
Date: 11 Feb 91 11:35:24 GMT
References: <47905.27b2d259@ccvax.ucd.ie>
Organization: Telecom Australia
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clissman@ccvax.ucd.ie writes:

>I want to get at this data and encrypt it before it arrives in level 6, and
>then 
>decrypt it as it goes from level 6 to level 7. Has anyone got clever ideas
>on this one ? 
>My gratitude for any help received,

I would have thought that level 6, being the Presentation Layer, would
be a logical place _within_ which do perform encryption & decryption?

Sorry I can't really help you much but I wonder what other people feel
about what is the appropriate point at which to apply encryption/decryption
and even compression/decompression.
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