Hello all,

  I  know, it's not absolutely correct question for this mailing list,
  but I don't know any other places to send my message.
  I'm  using  an apache, mod_ssl and OpenSSL to make a SSL connections
  to  my  server.  My main goal is to transfer some data to the server
  and return an answer. If I use an SSL - all ok,but not all potential
  clients of my server could establish an SSL connection. I'm going to
  make  an  additional service (write a Perl script) for such clients.
  This  "extra"  will  crypt  data  at  the client side, send it to my
  server and wait for the encrypted answer. Cipher I'm going to use is
  HCE_SHA1. 
  There  is a CGI::EncryptForm module on the CPAN, wich uses this
  algorithm.  May be somebody know how reliable is HCE_SHA1 cipher? Or
  it  only  depends  on  the "reliableness" of the random generator it
  uses. Then how is it if it uses standard Perl rand() function ?

  Might me exists better solution within using of the Perl? Complicacy
  of  the subject is that i can't install binaries to the client side.
  Maximum  what i can install on the client side - my own script. Also
  client could have any OS and any web server.
  Perl seems to me the most multiplatform solution for the web, is it?

  Please,  if  somebody  know  a  source  of  knowledges  regarding my
  questions ( in the internet ), drop me a link.
  
Please help !
Thanks in advance and
best regards,
Fedor

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