stevieb shouldn't have mentioned the web portion of the work, as it is quite irrelevant ;)

For completeness, I'm taking care of the web side of things with a mix of CGI::Application, DBIx::Class, a bunch of other modules along with some custom code, which is of course topped off at the presentation layer by Apache. SSL was mentioned to express that the input would be encrypted as it came in, and that the only unencrypted handoff would be in between the acceptance by a CGI app sanitizer/handler from the ass-end of the web server, and a hop (hopefully) right into another piece of code that would PGP it up for me for delivery

Steve