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[nycphp-talk] Secure Data

Jon Baer jonbaer at jonbaer.net
Fri Jul 18 13:42:07 EDT 2003


i personally find the open_ssl stuff easy to work with after u figure it out
...

http://us4.php.net/manual/en/ref.openssl.php

it is pretty much the same thing, look @ seal + open.

- jon

pgp key: http://www.jonbaer.net/jonbaer.asc
fingerprint: F438 A47E C45E 8B27 F68C 1F9B 41DB DB8B 9A0C AF47


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Analysis & Solutions" <danielc at analysisandsolutions.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Secure Data


> Ladies (there are at least SOME women on the list, right?) & Gentlemen:
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:36:18PM -0400, Hans Zaunere wrote:
> >
> > But keep in mind; if the server on which the key resides is compromised,
> > the game's over.
>
> Hmm...  This got me to thinking.  It'd be nice to have GPG built into PHP
> to avoid use of program execution functions.  In the mean time,
> proc_open() is handy.
>
> With GPG and PGP, you can encrypt stuff with a public key then decrypt it
> with the private key.  The private key is password protected, but the
> public key isn't.  So, an automated process can encrypt the stuff on the
> way in.  To get stuff out, submit the password via a secure form.
>
> While this isn't the right process for all situations, it can be useful.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> --Dan
>
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