sockets and encryption

[Chris Liechti]

Paul Nilsson <p.nilsson at xtra.co.nz> wrote in 
news:6pintugofjalm0sbg1u2g4q91bdonmbupk at 4ax.com:

> I'm wondering if anybody knows of an encryption module which allows a
> client/server to set up a SSH type connection. Eg. the server pushes
> over a static publick key and an hourly generated key, the client
> generates a session key and fires this back at the server, then the
> session is encrypted with this key and blowfish (or something
> similar).

well you could of course use pyssh and have something that works.

> Ideally I'd like to be able to drop these sockets in where I'm using
> the standard socke library now.

you could use ssh and port forwarding
 
> It's not really to difficult to code this up, however I really don't
> want to re-invent the wheel here.

sure and with pycrypto it's realy easy. however getting something _secure_ 
is an other task (making it attack proof). 

http://pyssh.sourceforge.net/
http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html

chris

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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>