Re: Re: Self Extracting Archives with Perl (almost)

[thoglette]

Let me say 'me too!'

More specifically:

What are you doing to ensure that the Kiddies are not going to compromise your comms link?
Using an email saying "execute this attachement" is just asking for trouble, IMO.

What is your common code base?
Personally, I'd insist on a real compression engine and a decent encryption program (eg. pgp).

What is available out of the box?

While this is a Really Cool Piece O'code, (I'm impressed) this is not a new problem. And various specialised (hopefully debugged) and compiled (hopefully faster and self containing) programs such as PGP and PKZIP exist to solve exactly this sort of problem.

Perl (as a script) is a neat way of ensuring that the correct commands are run.

The question you should be asking (as the admin) is: what is the life time cost of each of the possible solutions?
Put it another way: 'How much time can I spend supporting my scripts?'

It's an interesting Perl excercise, but is it really a nail?

Finally, "never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of magnetic media."
A self extracting CD deals with a lot of Bozo user problems, and alleviates most of the security issues.

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