Re: [cobalt-developers] PGP installation and config with SSL

["Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >Thanks for the input Jonas.  Just one quick question however...  Is there a
> >way to put the key in the form itself.  The customer will input the
> >information in the form to be sent to the magazine.  I wonder if there's a
> >way to encrypt it automatically?  Is this possible or will that compromise
> >the security?

I'm confused, do you want to send a secure message to the customer
who is visiting/submitting to the site?  Or do you want to deliver
a secured message to the person paying you to host the site?

If it's the case of the former, use the SSL session to display
the information.

In the event of the latter, pgp and gpg are options as is S/MIME
although I'm not sure if there's say a module for that at CPAN
at the moment.  What you could do is with a cgi in this case is
to reserve a field for the hoster to input the path to his public
key stored on the server.  Your script can then call pgp/gpp to
encrypt the message before sending it.

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