From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2009-04-18T02:55:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Shared Half-Secret

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 02:48:32AM +0900, James Gray wrote:
> I have a program A (totally private) that talks to a program B (open  
> source).  I would like to introduce some way to ensure B only listens to 
> the real A to avoid things like man-in-the-middle attacks.

SSL socket with certificate validation perhaps?

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Aaron Patterson
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