Security Basics: Re: Transmitting Sensitive Information between Servers

["Ben Preston" <veruus () gmail com>]

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...

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Ben