[SLUG] Encrypted send/recv on a socket

[Andy Eager]

Hi all,

I am writing a simple tcp socket application: One machine opens a socket and listens while another machine connects to the socket and sends / receives messages.

I need to have the data encrypted in both directions. One thought was to use ssh with the port forward option (-L port:host:hostport).

Just wondering if anyone knows of a library function similar to send / receive that handles encryption so I dont have to use ssh. (Similar to SSL as used by https)

Thanks,


Andy Eager.

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