[svlug] perl script. - humm

[Rick Moen]

begin Rafael Skodlar quotation:

[Cybercafes:]

> One way to deal would be to use PDA which communicates with the remote
> host with serial or IR port using hostile machine as a conduit.

There is, indeed, an SSH for PalmOS, TopGun SSH
(http://www.ai/~iang/TGssh/ ,  ftp://ftp.zedz.net/pub/crypto/palmpilot/ ,
http://linuxmafia.com/pub/palmos/ ).  But getting PPP service on the 
cybercafe machine's serial port is unlikely.

On the other hand, plugging in your laptop to an available ethernet port
fits the bill perfectly.  If permitted.  If not, you have a problem.

> The program to enable that communication could be downloaded and run in
> Java on hostile machines. The encryption would be done on PDA and
> remote machine.

Good luck getting permission to install software onto a typical cybercafe
machine.  On the other hand, you might be allowed to reboot one of them
temporarily to a bootable business card (assuming you're willing to
trust the hardware).  

On the whole, the laptop's your best bet.

(Yrs. truly had six years' residence in the CoffeeNet building to ponder
this exact problem.)

-- 
Cheers,             "I used to be on the border of insanity.  However, due 
Rick Moen           to pressing political concerns, I recently had to invade."
rick at linuxmafia.com                        -- Kurt Montandon, in r.a.sf.w.r-j