It sounds like you are trying to give to Perl some "MS-windows" style of security. Let the OS (interpreter) decide what you can and can't see. Of course, just as with windows, that kindof security can be hacked. The best way to implement security, is to make GPG (or PGP) more of a standard. In other words, just keep things you don't want seen, encrypted.

For example, with the credit card data problem: An easy solution would be for the browsers to have the ability to PGP encrypt data, with your key, before submitting it.

All this would really take, is to get a promo campaign going to get the average person familiar with the basics of keys. It's not that hard, but it seems complicated at first. Then the browser developers could build in PGP encryption of form-data.

In reply to Re: 'Restricted' data, an additional security mechanism for Perl. by zentara
in thread 'Restricted' data, an additional security mechanism for Perl. by pjf

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