Re: [MI400] MI a good use for encryption?

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Dan Bale <dbale@samsa.com>
> We support medical billing software, and one of the new regulations coming
> down the pipe will be to encrypt data that is being transferred between
> systems.  That is the basics of what I know right now.  So, just thinking
> WAY out of the box, I was wondering if MI would be a good (better than RPG)
> tool to encrypt/decrypt data?  Would we be able to save our clients from
> having to invest in IBM's crypto LPP?
>

A chapter in my eBook (http://iseries40.org) shows an MI implementation
of the new encryption standard (AES). It also shows a C-implementation
and explains why the C-implementation does a better job (better optimizer).
With V5R1, there is a built in AES implementation (in the CIPHER
instruction).
You can invoke CIPHER from RPG, so you have lots of choices.