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Re: Transmitting Sensitive Information between Servers


From: "Ben Preston" <veruus () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:31:48 -0600

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Basha, Arif <abasha () apa org> wrote:

We have a policy to not pass user name/password, etc in clear between
servers within our DMZ.  Is this being too pedantic?

I would be interested to hear how others have this implemented?

Thanks.
Arif





I don't think it is too much to ask for.  There are secure methods for
this, whatever the transport; stunnel, encrypted data piped over
netcat, https, sftp/scp...

-- 

Ben


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