Re: Re: Re: Question of safe data passing...

[Sinister]

In that case would it not be use-full to use a tunnel to protect your data. Something like the C script you talked about opens an SSH tunnel to the localhost and throws the data in there, with perl script waiting on the other side waiting to munge... ??? 8-& Sinister greetings.

[suaveant]

That sounds like more work than what I am planning... and harder for general users to set up... and I'm not even sure it is more secure... or more robust.
                - Ant

[Sinister]

The work involved shouldn't be to hard. You'd only need a user which can only connect to and from localhost defined in your SSHD, with a key, so it can passwordless connect to localhost. The general user will never notice a thing if you do it right. Right?

Sinister greetings.

[suaveant]

What if you are on someone else's system? What if they don't have SSH? (granted most do)...

I just don't see this as a good alternative... for instance, if you want to use this with a CGI that runs as nobody and you are a user on some ISP.
                - Ant