Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >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.
Well runs on Linux/Unix and Win32 has at least a client so which platforms is VMS the problem? Thing is who is going to give access to their machine(s) via some ad. hoc. scheme? I am not for a start.
