Delivery of large reports and file material is becoming a problem for many organisations. Electronic file delivery poses risks to the integrity and security of the data, and delivery of printed copies is too slow and expensive. Email delivery is not possible in many cases as the files may be too large, even when zipped.
You can resort to establishing an FTP site of your own, or create a secure delivery site using something like OWL, or use a third party service.
A usable third party solution to this problem is YouSendIt. This lets you send and receive files up to 2GB in size. A zipped 2GB file represents a large volume of data. Passwords control access to files you are sending and receiving, but YouSendIt does not encrypted files on their servers.
Regardless of the solution selected, the person transmitting the data must assume responsibility for the encryption. Never, ever, let somebody else take responsibility for the encryption — do it yourself on your own computer.
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