Barry Hill wrote:
> 
> Secure transmissions are all very well, but the next
> question is how to store the data securely on the machine,
> [..]
> I'd thought of write()'ing sensitive data to a root-readable
> file but because apache is running as "nobody" I can't do
> this (?).

As a first attempt: Add a user "wwwrun" for Apache instead of Apache
running as "nobody". Make directory write-only to "wwwrun" for storing
the data.

Second attempt: Encrypt or send data with S/MIME.

Ciao, Michael.
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