In my opinion, you're making a basic mistake here, and that is
ignoring the software engineering principle of separation of
concerns. Rather than saying that VistA should support connection via
SSH rather than telnet, I believe you are much better off saying
VistA should be able to work with a stream abstraction, which in turn
may or may not be implemented using SSH by the underlying operating
system. By not doing so, you run the risk of creating a tighter than
necessary coupling between VistA and the underlying platform, with
all its attendant headaches.
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Gregory Woodhouse
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"Without the requirement of mathematical aesthetics a great many
discoveries would not have been made."
-- Albert Einstein
On Aug 2, 2005, at 1:32 AM, Zeno Davatz wrote:
Ok here goes the security arguement ;)
I believe security is always an issue and if you do it with modern
technologies then you will have less hassle in the long run (also with
the installation). The reason why I'm opting strongly for pgp and
OpenSSH is because it is commenly used to sync servers and Software.
Also gpg is as secure as you can get for an avarege user at the moment
(in terms of hassle of the installation). The whole source code
management (SCM) of the Linux kernel builds on Rsync and gpg (speaking
of git/cogito).
For me OpenSSH and GPG is just in there with the core users, and my
guess is it will be in there for a long time; plus the core users do
care about security.
For me the Kernel users have similar syncing requirements as the
OpenVista Users. Both sync thier boxes with software and data over the
local networks and over the internet. I guess in the long run as GPG
evolves it will also become even more secure.
If we find out that GPG and OpenSSH are not enough we can always add
an extra layer. But lets just get GPG and OpenSSH in there
_right_from_the_beginning.
Thanks
Zeno
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