Secure file upload tool design?
[1/8] from: jasonic:cunliffe:verizon at: 18-Dec-2001 11:38
I need to build a secure client-side tool in REBOLfor people to upload files
to a remote server. I would like to use REBOL/View so I can offer an easy
GUI for fiel browsing, selection and transfer. An option I see using REBOL
are:
- insist they buy REBOL/ViewPro and use encryption for login+password
handling and then FTP on a special port for data transfer. On the server I
should at least run /ViewPro or /Command.
Does anyone have improvements to this approach, perhaps one which can be
built using the free REBOL/View or even REBOL/Core?
Examples/caveats?
thanks
./Jason
[2/8] from: rpgwriter::yahoo at: 18-Dec-2001 14:08
--- Jason Cunliffe <[jasonic--cunliffe--verizon--net]>
wrote:
> I need to build a secure client-side tool in
> REBOLfor people to upload files
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> built using the free REBOL/View or even REBOL/Core?
> Examples/caveats?
You could always implement encryption yourself and
send the files between REBOL client program to
REBOL server using a custom protocol. There are any
number of free sources describing cryptographic
algorithms on the web; the main problem with
implementing them in REBOL may be performance,
since REBOL isn't entirely a speed demon for
math, as I understand it.
Chris Dicely
[3/8] from: jasonic:cunliffe:verizon at: 18-Dec-2001 19:01
> You could always implement encryption yourself and
> send the files between REBOL client program to
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> since REBOL isn't entirely a speed demon for
> math, as I understand it.
Thanks. Yes I tend to believe the easiest adn often most effective security
is simply small customized tools designed to play together on both client
and server. For that one can use almost anything, images, flash, rebol .. 6
different sister emails designed to be re-assembled etc.
Am I right in understanding that the cryptographic needs are only for
generating codes? They do not need to run all the time? If so, REBOL's math
crunching speed is not really an obstacle.
Today I upgraded my version of F-Secures SSH-Telnet Client. They ahave a
really cool installation tool. It opens a window and then tells you to move
the mouse around. As you do so, a fuel guauge graphic fills pregresses. The
softwar uses the manually genrated, random, hard-to-reproduce mouse xy
coordinates as seed data for the SSH code. This takes only about 7 seconds
to complete. Seems like a very neat way to create secure pascodes on the
fly. I hope to try a native REBOL version.
Other approaches I have been wondering about: using small photos with
embedded data in them. The advantage there is an ancient humanly readable
verification combined with encrypted invisble data. A hybrid woudl be to
generate small artworks using the mouse tracking.. in effect genreate art to
craeet imagery which also embdeds encrypted data within. These could then be
used as iconographic security tokens.
./Jason
[4/8] from: tomc:darkwing:uoregon at: 18-Dec-2001 17:06
Hi Jason,
encryption can be achive with just core
but it is better not discuss it on the list
(per RT request)
[tomc--darkwing--uoregon--edu]
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Jason Cunliffe wrote:
[5/8] from: jasonic:cunliffe:verizon at: 18-Dec-2001 20:47
> Hi Jason,
>
> encryption can be achive with just core
> but it is better not discuss it on the list
> (per RT request)
>
> [tomc--darkwing--uoregon--edu]
Hi Tom
Thanks for your reply. I am listening ...
./Jason
[6/8] from: ammonjohnson::yahoo::com at: 18-Dec-2001 21:14
Jason, another idea is to send the 'sister emails' (broken up data) over
different transportation protocols.
Enjoy!!
Ammon
[7/8] from: brett:codeconscious at: 19-Dec-2001 14:31
Well if it is a process that you repeat time and time again, View/IOS may be
appropriate. As I understand it you would
install it and your problem is solved. Alas alack, when / if we are to see
it and for what cost of the various installations I know not.
Brett.
[8/8] from: slok00::yahoo at: 19-Dec-2001 11:46
At 11:38 AM 12/18/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I need to build a secure client-side tool in REBOLfor people to upload files
>to a remote server. I would like to use REBOL/View so I can offer an easy
>GUI for fiel browsing, selection and transfer. An option I see using REBOL
>are:
I once posted a question which requires synchronisation. To a certain
extent, it is
similar to the file upload stuff you are talking about.
The feedback from the list is to investigate REBOL EXPRESS.
However, I am not up-todate on the various products that RT has in the
pipeline.
Personally, I am still interested in the synching capabilities of Express.
YekSoon
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