>> If you lookup IIS on gartner.com you'll be amazed at their raving at the >> insecurity of this product. If you want to enter the world of irrevocable >> password-based payments, you may want to think twice before using IIS.
>Unfortunately, that is what e-gold uses! I really wish they switched to >Unix and Apache. ASP is just great. There is a common misconception that a Linux Apache server is better / more secure. This is not the case. As with all OS's you need to keep on top of security issues. Since most NT / IIS admins do not (look at the code red worm) do this it LOOKS like it is more dangerous to run IIS. There have been some serious bugs in Apache / Linux / SSH in the past as well... It is not a matter of more secure or not, just a matter of keeping on top of the fixes. I know, I do this for a big european bank. :-) I want to build my e-gold SCI in ASP because I will be able to easily intergrate it into the backoffice. This is a big plus and you see that this is also the reason most banks prefer to go the Microsoft way. If e-gold keeps up with it's security patches and the servers are properly firewalled the risk is minimal and comparable to a Linux system running apache. Since I am not a C++ programmer I also find the source code of an ASP page (= VBscript) a lot easier to read then Perl / Php wich is more close to C++ then basic. :-) Thank you all for the answers on this list and in my private email, as soon as I've created something cool I'll share it here. CU L8r! /\/\artijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-tech as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.