On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:47:30 +0100, Nobody wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:34:55 -0700, mzagu...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I am wondering what your strategies are for ensuring that data >> transmitted to a website via a python program is indeed from that >> program, and not from someone submitting POST data using some other >> means. > >> Any remedy? > > Supply the client with tamper-proof hardware containing a private key.
Is that resistant to man-in-the-middle attacks by somebody with a packet sniffer watching the traffic between the device and the website? > Either that, or just accept that it cannot be done. Compare the amount > of effort game developers put into trying to implement tamper-proofing > in software with how little success they've had. Exactly. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
