Best Encryption for Python Client/Server

[Ed Hotchkiss]

hah :P awesome, I will be busy this week!
-edward

 On 20 Sep 2005 14:23:10 -0700, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid>
wrote:
>
> Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:
> > > Here's my mission: simple P2P class with encryption of whatever type
> > > of file is being sent, and authentication via encrypted user
> > > name/password. So any type of file or login being sent over the net,
> > > any communication between the scripts should be encrypted,
> > > regardless of whether it is client/server communication, or file
> > > transfer.
> > Robert's suggestion was a good one, as ssh (rather than SSH) is very
> > good at building encrypted tunnels between arbitrary processes.
>
> If you want to use SSL in a similar fashion, try stunnel
> (http://www.stunnel.org). Frankly I've never understood why ssh even
> exists, but it's very widespread by now, and works pretty well within
> its limitations.
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edward hotchkiss
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