[ic] credit card info

S. Wong interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Fri Jun 14 00:19:02 2002


Thank you all who have replied.  I will try to get GPG working.  Just a quick
question ... what's the diff between PGP and GPG ... is one better than the
other or they're just the same?

Greg wrote:

> At 12:25 AM 6/13/02 -0700, you wrote:
> > > > I decided not to Mail-Order-to ... how do I retrieve credit card info
> > > > from the db for a transaction?  Or is it only via Mail-Order-To that
> > > > credit card info is "available?"  Help.
> > > >
> > > The credit card details are not stored along with the transaction
> > > details.  They will be emailed to you and/or processed by a payment
> > > processor.
> > >
> >
> >
> >Kevin is right, however I think you are manually processing yes?
> >
> >You will want to look into using GPG or PGP to encrypt them and email them
> >to you. I am not familiar with this, but as I understand, this "function"
> >acts like a processor, instead of delivering the numbers to some clearing
> >house, it emails it to you -> encrypted, where you then decryptisize it ;)
> >
> >IC does not natively store, keep or need credit card numbers, nor is it a
> >good idea to have these numbers on your server, in a db, encrypted or not.
> >
> >CC#'s go either straight to a processor, or to you via email->PGP/GPG. I
> >have passed over a lot of docs regarding this in the archives, it is in
> >there. However I think they are broken right now. You might just want to do
> >a google search to find out about this GPG/PGP stuff, for now at least.
> >
> >
> >that is, as I understand it :)
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >paul
>
> Here is a message from the archive that got me going on the whole PGP
> E-mail issue:
>
> http://interchange.redhat.com/archive/interchange-users/2002/msg08166.html
>
> I installed PGP of course, then the Eudora mail client which supports PGP
> encryption via a plug-in. I'm on a hosted (Cpanel) site, so I had to work
> with my web host to get the public key imported into IC. No problem. I
> receive E-mail orders with the CC info block encrypted. I just hit
> Decrypt/Verify, enter my pass phrase and the info appears, ready to process.
>
> "It's a beautiful thing."
>
> Greg
>
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