Thank you for the reply.

So let it be in the URL- if it's encrypted, what does it matter? It's too computationally expensive to figure out quickly, and relatively safe, that is, if in fact these are not the full login credentials (infidel2122 ?).

Yes that's essentially the criteria, though this won't be a login, it will point to a virtual public url. So it's actually okay if search engines/caches or whatever pick it up as the other poster mentioned.

And it's no problem if a key has to be involved to encrypt, decrypt on each end. So I'll take a look at the PGP module, I kind of assumed it'd give me a huge 256 character long url or some such, which I've been trying to avoid.

I'm also wondering if whatever method is used to store passwords in /etc/shadow would work. I gather that is non trivial to decrypt and should be reliable given its wide use.

thanks! Kevin

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