secure data transport between web server and database server

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Published on 2010-06-17T02:15:15Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 2:24 UTC
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I asked this question in stackoverflow and it was suggested to try here so here goes...

I'm planning on provisioning a web server and database server in a server farm environment. They will be in the same network but not in the same domain, both windows server 2008 and the database server is sql server 2008. My question being, what is the best way to secure data in transport between the servers? I've looked into IPSEC and SSL but not sure how to go about implementing either.

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