A combonation of IP restriction and basic authentication over SSL, while not
ideal, would probably be better than most alternatives I can think of.
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> SSL avoids the problem of someone sniffing the plain text data. We
> still have the problem: what data do we send? Anyone can forge
> credentials and send them over SSL. How does B know it came
> from A? I'm
> thinking of some key exchange method, but portability between the
> Microsoft and UNIX worlds makes this even trickier.
>
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> Bill Lubanovic
> Mad Scheme Limited