Re: [hylafax-users] Encryption

["Siri Vias Khalsa" <sirivias.khalsa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Put something like this at the very _end_ of the faxrcvd script (usually “faxrcvd-custom” – whatever is specified for FaxRcvdCmd in the modem config file):

ORIG_FILE_NAME=$FILE

FILE_NAME=${ORIG_FILE_NAME##*\/}

FOLDER_NAME=${ORIG_FILE_NAME%\/*}"/"

gpg --recipient xxx@xxxxxxx --output "/var/spool/hylafax/fax_archive/$FILE_NAME.pgp" --encrypt "$FOLDER_NAME$FILE_NAME" && shred --remove “$FILE”

xxx@xxxxxxx is a pgp key that you already made, and you need to the public key in your keyring. Interesting note here the folder that gpg uses for its keyring is “.gnupg” and it is normally in your home directory. The uucp user, at least on my system, needed to have this folder in the root directory “/.gnupg/” instead of what is marked as its home dir “/var/spool/uucp”. For security reasons (and if your bothering to encrypt you are concerned about security) you should not keep the private key to this encryption pair on this same machine.

 

-Siri Vias

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From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Kissner
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:52 AM
To: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [hylafax-users] Encryption

 

Checking in with everyone to see how one can go about encrypting or password protecting all stored faxes.  I am running hylafax 4.3 on Fedora Core 6 using AvantFax 3.1.3 for a front end.  I have posted with AvantFax and they have nothing to offer at this time so they suggest i post here to see what is available or recommended.