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in thread Question of safe data passing...

Okay write a request server as a daemon that the scripts can ask for stuff from. If you want to make it bafflingly encrypted. Store the data as encrypted and use several salts. Store the data in the server in encrypted form and transmit it encrypted.

After you've done this compile the perl code for the server and delete the history files, burn your notes..... kill the sys admins for your site1

1. This isn't totally necessary, but if your gonna be thorough ;^) 

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by suaveant (Parson) on Apr 27, 2001 at 17:35 UTC
    Ok.. tell me how I can call it securely? Same problem, if it has a password, it is visible in perl script, and other people can write something to access the request daemon.
                    - Ant
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      It's a daemon, root can run it, you can fire it up at run time,by adding it to rc.d.
      Since root ran it you can store the DB settings in a file only root can access (you can use another user, it doesn't have to be root). 

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      Brother Frankus.
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        Right... but how do you prevent any script on the system from asking for the DB settings?
                        - Ant
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