Let me say 'me too!'

More specifically:

  • What are you doing to ensure that the Kiddies are not going to compromise your comms link?
    Using an email saying "execute this attachement" is just asking for trouble, IMO.
  • What is your common code base?
    Personally, I'd insist on a real compression engine and a decent encryption program (eg. pgp).
  • What is available out of the box?

    While this is a Really Cool Piece O'code, (I'm impressed) this is not a new problem. And various specialised (hopefully debugged) and compiled (hopefully faster and self containing) programs such as PGP and PKZIP exist to solve exactly this sort of problem.

    Perl (as a script) is a neat way of ensuring that the correct commands are run.

    The question you should be asking (as the admin) is: what is the life time cost of each of the possible solutions?
    Put it another way: 'How much time can I spend supporting my scripts?'

    It's an interesting Perl excercise, but is it really a nail?

    Finally, "never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of magnetic media."
    A self extracting CD deals with a lot of Bozo user problems, and alleviates most of the security issues.

    Butlerian Jihad now!

    In reply to Re: Re: Self Extracting Archives with Perl (almost) by thoglette
    in thread Self Extracting Archives with Perl (almost) by deprecated

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