Re: Pre Dev Q - Please

From: Rich Gibbs (rgibbs_at_REMOVEalumni.CAPSprinceton.edu)
Date: 11/23/04

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    Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:33:17 -0500

    Miron said the following, on 11/22/04 22:49:
    > I am preparing to begin a large project and security is a big issue. I am
    > considering the option of developing in C and having the application run on
    > a Linux box. The only question now is, how would a windoze user access this
    > application running natively on Linux in C?
    >
    > I am NOT considering browser based options at this time.
    >
    > Thank you in advance for any assistance.
    > Steven
    >

    Steven,

    You haven't really given us enough information to make any very specific
    suggestions. If you did develop the application on Linux, how would
    Linux users access it (across some kind of network connection)?

    If the application's user interface is terminal based (using, say,
    something like 'curses'), then Linux or Windows users could access it
    across the network using SSH [Secure Shell]: there are SSH clients for
    both Linux and Windows.

    If it's an X application, then things are a bit more complicated, but
    SSH can still be used with X forwarding. (Obviously you would require
    an X server on the Windows or Linux client.)

    You might also look into the possibilities available with VNC.

    None of this addresses any security concerns that are particular to the
    application. (For example, is there concern about confidential
    information being written to swap space, or hijacked by malware, on the
    client machines?)

    As far as I can see, having the application written in C (as opposed to
    some other language) is not of much relevance to the issue as you've
    stated it.

    HTH 

    -- 
Rich Gibbs
rgibbs@alumni.princeton.edu
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