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Okay, so the last version that was widely touted didn't materialise, and that has been a year or more, but to be honest that project was abandoned almost right away- you know how it goes hacking on imperfect code; when you break it, its too much effort to fix.

For those of you who haven't worked it out, though, this project is a simple enough tool for polling remote computers, securely, to return system statistics, such as uptime, network connections and statistics, temperature and power etc. Essentially, all the information you'd want from your remote boxes, in a simple text driven way, and without the need to SSH in.... read more

Well, v2 is here.
SHA password hashing
AES traffic encryption between server and client
Echoless pw
Neatened/Sanitise Output
Simpler code to read/maintain
Better control over side-channel attacks
Build and Install script
More efficient code

Whew, that was a bit jumbled. Anyway, should be uploaded soon

So its not quite stable, and the password/login method on the client app became obsolete not 20mins after the release was released, but the code is more or less stable.

Version 1.1 should neaten up the code, should have echoless password control and maybe a web control panel.