[ic] Credit Card Encryption Problems

Michael Goldfarb interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Tue Oct 8 12:50:01 2002


>--- "Barry Treahy, Jr." <Treahy@MMaz.com> wrote:
>> Tom Harty wrote:
>> 
>> >I'm having a problem about every 30 or so errors
>> where
>> >credit card shows up as "O".
>> >
>> >error Log says:
>> > 
>> >/cgi-bin/nsm/process.html PGP failed with status
>> 3072:
>> >
>> >the pgp .error file in /tmp says:
>> > 
>> >gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
>> >  
>> >
>> Read the GPG README and installation file, it'll
>> tell you about this as 
>> it has nothing to do with IC.
>> 
>> Barry
>> 
>[snip]
>
>I think I need to explain this differently.  I'm not
>complaining about the gpg memory warnings.  I'm
>complaining there isn't any other errors/warnings,
>since the memory warning isn't fatel.  The memory
>warning appears in the .err file even if the CC number
>gets encrypted just fine.  What I'm saying is,
>randomly, something fails.  
> 
>This looks like the exact same problem noted here in
>June:
> 
>http://interchange.redhat.com/pipermail/interchange-users/2002->June/02
1875.html
>
>From what I'm reading here they got it down to only
>happening every few days, but never completely closed
>the problem.
> 
>ideas?
> 
>Tom Harty


We resolved this issue by running IC in RPC mode. This solved the PGP
failing messages you noted above 100% of the time. We have been running
in RPC mode for about 3 months and have not had this error since the
change.