Domino and HIPPA

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Last night I was at an event for my daughter who is a senior in high 
school.  I was talking to her boyfriend.  He is a freshman in college and 
also works in systems for his grandfather.  He's doing some impressive 
work at one of the largest medical offices in the Kalamazoo area.  The 
office is primarily MAC OS.  Sounds like they have an impressive 
Electronic Medical Records system.  The mail server is some open source 
package running on Red Hat.  He talked about a mail bomb that overloaded 
their server.  I mentioned that we had issues on R5 of Domino that R6 of 
Domino had some nice features to overcome this.  Such as blacklist filters 
and not accepting email that didn't have a valid address on the inside.

The scary part was that he said that they used to be a Domino mail shop. 
They converted off of that because HIPPA required 1024 bit encryption and 
Domino didn't support that but their open source package did.

He also mentioned that the package also had some of the features as R6 for 
this kind of mail.  However he said something about the feature was lost 
because of bugs and will be reinstated when they get the new Panther 
version of OS for the Mac due out any day.

Anyone else run into this HIPPA restriction?

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin