On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:35:28AM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >One thing to keep in mind is portability. In order for this to be useful > >it has to run on pretty much all platforms. Unix, Windows, VMS, etc... > >So I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible.
*snip* > >HTTPS might be overkill, we don't need to encrypt the communications, just > >identify the server. A simple thing to do would be for my server to have > >a public/private key pair. > > How about layering it on ssh then? See above. Yes, ssh is not portable enough. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ I've just gone through a lung-crushing breakup with my blender and I don't think I should screw my forehead alone tonight.